What better place to enjoy summer than at the beach, lake or river! Below you’ll find more than 50 easy beach themed DIY craft tutorials and ocean blue recipes colored with homemade, natural food dyes. Continue reading 50+ Free Beach Themed Crafts & Recipes: Let’s Go To The Beach!
‘Easter week would, indeed, be a dull commonplace seven days without the advent of at least one party, where appropriate merry-making holds sway. It is a delightful time, too, for the younger generation to entertain their little friends, Continue reading Children’s Easter Parties In The Edwardian Era
‘Christmas is usually kept as a family festival, and old-fashioned games in which young and old can join are the most appropriate. Continue reading Old-Fashioned Christmas Games & Christmas Carols
I made a pair of wooden stick dice! 😀 Yay! I’m so pleased with how they came out. And DIY wooden dice are way easier to make than I thought: All you need is some scrap wood and some hand tools. Continue reading DIY Wooden Stick Dice – Tutorial
I love games made with river rocks or beach pebbles! 😀 For this river rock tic tac toe I used a round silver gray river rock, drew lines with a chalk-like white rock, and used small round black and white pebbles as game pieces.
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At the moment, we’re often playing tafl games, such as Brandubh, Ard Ri, Tablut and Hnefatafl. Tafl games are a family of Viking strategy board games. These type of games were played before chess became popular during the Middle Ages. The game looks simple but it’s as interesting as chess. Here’s a website with rules of the game Tablut. Continue reading DIY Rock Tafl Game
I wanted to make a game with rocks for a long time! So this Christmas I sewed a fabric pachisi board using river rocks as game pieces. Sewing a pachisi board is very easy and a great way to use up fabric scraps. Continue reading DIY Fabric Pachisi Game Board With Rocks