Made By Hands Make Your Own Games

by Made By Hands

Product Features

• Make-your-own game kit
• Winner of several toy product awards
• No cutting and no mess
• Age: 6 and up

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12.5 x 1.8 x 9.2 inches ; 1.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• ASIN: B000BR4JV8
• Item model number: MBHK005
• Manufacturer recommended age: 7 - 11 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,132 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Kids love making up their own games and with this multiple award-winning kit, they'll be inventing and designing their own board games, card games and even dice games. There's no cutting, no mess just hours of innovation. Comes in a kid-friendly, portable box with velcro closures and includes a sturdy folding cardboard game board, a large cardboard spinner, a plain deck of playing cards, two large and six small white cardboard folding dice and over 800 brightly colored, whimsical pop-outs cardboard shapes. And last but not least, the necessary glue stick. Ages 6 and up.

Product Description

This kit contains everything you need to create and decorate your very own board game! It comes packed with over 800 pop-out shapes that you can glue onto the game board, spinner, dice and cards. Fold together and then decorate the game dice, then use them in the game you just invented! This amazing activity kit combines the creativity of arts and crafts with the excitement and interactivity of board game play. You'll not only have a game that you'll enjoy playing, but a cute keepsake to hold onto forever! Comes with 1 folding game board, 1 spinner, 1 deck of cards, over 800 pop-out shapes, 2 large dice, 2 small dice, and a glue stick. All game pieces come undecorated. Ages 6 and Up.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From the Board Games Editor at BellaOnline.com, January 9, 2006

By 

Megan Romer (Lafayette, LA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Made By Hands Make Your Own Games (Toy)

I am seriously in love with the products made by Made By Hands company. This company makes wonderful products that give kids complete creative control of their own products, supplying only fun pieces to work with.

Make-Your-Own Games is one of their awesome kits. It deservedly won an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Toy Award Gold Seal. In each kit is a completely blank game board, a completely blank spinner, 2 large and 2 small dice, also blank, 1 deck of blank cards, a glue stick, and over 800 die-cut pop out shapes in a multitude of colors. The game also comes with an idea sheet, but that's about it! From there, your child's imagination takes over.

Here are some ideas for using this kit:

Use the kit to make a board game from your favorite book! Pair it with Journey to Gameland, a great book for kids telling them how to do just that.

Use the kit to make your own version of Candyland, allowing your child to substitute one of their favorite things for candy.

Make a trivia game that you can use again and again, substituting each week's vocabulary list or math subject for the trivia cards.

5.0 out of 5 stars Super product! Inspires creativity!, August 21, 2011

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Abigail Roloff - See all my reviews

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Made By Hands Make Your Own Games (Toy)

This is a GREAT gift for a child who loves making games, such as my 9-year-old son. He sat right down and made up a Mario Brothers Life-type game, and then a tricky shape-matching card game. Even after two full games made, there are still enough pieces for at least one more. I highly recommend this product!

5.0 out of 5 stars Create your own gam, February 5, 2011

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Eileen LEH NJ (Little Egg Harbor, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Made By Hands Make Your Own Games (Toy)

My son had a 6th grade Science project due and we didn't have the time or the energy to start from scratch. For the price and convenience this was well worth it. We were able to quickly create a game with question and answer cards using information he was studying in school. We used our own box to hold the game and created our own custom cover for the box so that he could use the name (of the game) that he had chosen.

This kit contained everything we needed to make a game.
He was able to bring it to school and the kids could learn by answering science questions and moving through the game. We made it sort of like Candyland -- spin the wheel land on a certain colored block and pick up a card with that color. Answer the science question correctly and move ahead a certain number of spaces, until you reach the end. Answer it incorrectly and stay where you are. Some spaces said "go back 5 spaces"