Making a Candy Tin Game
Gather your game components. You will need these items: Candy tin. Altoids Mint tins work well. Flexible magnets or magnetic tape. Old refrigerator magnets work well. Printer and printing paper Clear contact paper Scissors Paste or glue Pair of dice (Optional): Paint, stickers, and other decorative items
Paint or decorate your tin if desired. Print out the game boards and playing pieces sheets online at Artists Helping Children or by googling "making Altoids games." You can design your own game boards and pieces as well. Cover the game boards with clear contact paper. Cut to fit the can. Cut flexible magnets in small squares. Glue game pieces to the magnets. Store game boards, pieces, and dice in a can.
Play word games. Obtain magnetic word tiles or make them yourself by printing out words on card stock and attaching a magnet to the back. Create poems or quotes using the word tiles.
Making Travel Board Games
Print a downloadable board. There are many online sites where you can print out free game boards to use as is or to modify as you see fit. You may want to start at the Printable Board Games site. Customize a game board. LoveToKnow.com has downloadable templates that you can customize any way you want. Customize game pieces. You can print out dice and playing tokens to go with your game. Instead of numbers, why not use dice with pictures, runes, or anything you want? Make your game board durable. Attach the board to a stiff backing material that will keep it sturdy for travel and play. You may also want to cover the board with clear contact paper to keep it waterproof.
Make a bubble wrap game board. Draw or find small images of what you might see while traveling. Print the images on an 8.5"x11" piece of paper. Tape to the back of a piece of 8.5"x11" piece of bubble wrap so that each image is under a bubble. When the players see one of the items pictured on the sheet, they can pop the bubble where the image appears.
Making Travel Card Games
Design a game using a standard card deck. Most card games have a basic objective. By devising your own rules to achieve the game's objective, you can create your own game. Popular card game objectives include: Trick Taking Games. In trick-taking games, the objective is to take as many cards as possible. Cards may be of equal value, or certain cards may have higher values than others. Popular games in this objective group include Bridge, Whist, and Pinochle. Card Shedding Games. The objective in card shedding games is to discard all the cards from your hand. After the first player "goes out," or discards all cards in their hand, the game may end or play may continue until the last player sheds their cards. Card shedding games include Mao, Crazy Eights, and Bluff. Catch and Collect Games. Similar to trick-taking games, the object is for one player to collect all the cards in play. This could be cards of one suit, or the entire deck. Examples of catch and collect card games include Slap Jack and Egyptian Rat Screw. Matching Games. The object of matching games is to acquire groups of cards such as a run (three cards in sequence of the same suit), or three (or more of a kind). Matching card games include Rummy and Go Fish.
Make your own card rules. The game 1000 Blank White Cards is played just as the name implies. Everyone is dealt a hand of five blank cards, and creates cards and rules as the game progresses. Make your own secret rules. In the original Star Trek series, there was a card game known as Fizbin. The rules changed according to the day of the week, the combinations of cards in each hand, and the whims of the players. Make up your own rules as you go along and create your own card game. Have fun!
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