Making a very popular game yourself at home: how to build a miniature football using cardboard and recycled material. Procedure and ideas to customize it.
Game known to all, the soccer owes its popularity to its elder brother, football, and to the fact that in the village bars, at the oratory and even in one’s own home, there have been thousands of challenges played in the past and just as many those you want to do again, challenging friends and giving away pizza or even just for the sake of beating the opponent who has always made us suffer at table football.
Build one yourself in the house, using recycled material simple and always available, it is very easy, plus you will have the opportunity to customize it in an imaginative way, doing with time too different teams, to lend to friends when they come to visit you.
Required material
- a shoe box or cardboard
- clothespins for drying clothes (wood or plastic are indifferent)
- a glass (it will be used to make circles on the field)
- colored markers (including a white one)
- alternatively tempera or water colors and brushes
- cardboard, crepe paper or even a white sheet or newspaper
- glue
- scissors
- straws or wooden sticks (long ones)
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Method
Based on the number of clothespins available, you will decide how many players will compose each team. If you have a normal shoe box available, the ideal number is 5, with a goalkeeper, 2 defenders and 2 forwards, so that the game runs smoothly.
Start with the color the two teams differently, with maximum freedom of choice.
Take there box cardboard e cut on extreme sides the cardboard, for create the doors. Measure well, making sure they are equal and well proportioned with respect to the playing field.
Then, arrange the paper or cardboard on the bottom, on which you have drawn the football field, using a white marker or white paint, to simulate the lines of the pitch in the best possible way. You can paint it entirely green, but even in this, personalization knows no bounds.
Sui inner edges of the box you can for example to draw the spectators or paste pages and photographs that portray the audience in the stands.
Now let’s move on to the most important part, that of creation of the slats where to put your toys.
Proceed to do 6 holes on each long side of the box, where you will then go to insert the sticks or sticks. Take care to drill just the diameter of the stick, so that it can rotate freely and does not remain stiff when you operate the sticks.
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Inserted i sticks, you will go to arrange the clothespins: for a more stable and easier shot, it is better that the part where it is grasped is the one grazing the ground.
You can arrange the pegs according to the 1-2-2 scheme or, at your choice, leaving the goalkeeper 3 defenders and one attacker fixed to make the goal even more difficult.
Now the time has finally come to kick off the challenges !!
DIY cardboard table football: image gallery
In the gallery, other suggestions for creating your very own five-a-side football pitch.
Making a very popular game yourself at home: how to build a miniature football using cardboard and recycled material. Procedure and ideas to customize it.
Game known to all, the soccer owes its popularity to its elder brother, football, and to the fact that in the village bars, at the oratory and even in one’s own home, there have been thousands of challenges played in the past and just as many those you want to do again, challenging friends and giving away pizza or even just for the sake of beating the opponent who has always made us suffer at table football.
Build one yourself in the house, using recycled material simple and always available, it is very easy, plus you will have the opportunity to customize it in an imaginative way, doing with time too different teams, to lend to friends when they come to visit you.
Required material
- a shoe box or cardboard
- clothespins for drying clothes (wood or plastic are indifferent)
- a glass (it will be used to make circles on the field)
- colored markers (including a white one)
- alternatively tempera or water colors and brushes
- cardboard, crepe paper or even a white sheet or newspaper
- glue
- scissors
- straws or wooden sticks (long ones)
Read also: Modern design bar furniture
Method
Based on the number of clothespins available, you will decide how many players will compose each team. If you have a normal shoe box available, the ideal number is 5, with a goalkeeper, 2 defenders and 2 forwards, so that the game runs smoothly.
Start with the color the two teams differently, with maximum freedom of choice.
Take there box cardboard e cut on extreme sides the cardboard, for create the doors. Measure well, making sure they are equal and well proportioned with respect to the playing field.
Then, arrange the paper or cardboard on the bottom, on which you have drawn the football field, using a white marker or white paint, to simulate the lines of the pitch in the best possible way. You can paint it entirely green, but even in this, personalization knows no bounds.
Sui inner edges of the box you can for example to draw the spectators or paste pages and photographs that portray the audience in the stands.
Now let’s move on to the most important part, that of creation of the slats where to put your toys.
Proceed to do 6 holes on each long side of the box, where you will then go to insert the sticks or sticks. Take care to drill just the diameter of the stick, so that it can rotate freely and does not remain stiff when you operate the sticks.
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Inserted i sticks, you will go to arrange the clothespins: for a more stable and easier shot, it is better that the part where it is grasped is the one grazing the ground.
You can arrange the pegs according to the 1-2-2 scheme or, at your choice, leaving the goalkeeper 3 defenders and one attacker fixed to make the goal even more difficult.
Now the time has finally come to kick off the challenges !!
DIY cardboard table football: image gallery
In the gallery, other suggestions for creating your very own five-a-side football pitch.
