Indoor Croquet
What You’ll Need:
- pencil
- paper-towel tube
- thin cardboard
- scissors
- glue
- toilet-tissue tube
- ruler
- crayons or markers
- used greeting cards
- yarn
How to Make It:
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To make each mallet, trace around the end of a paper-towel tube three times onto thin cardboard. Cut out the circles. Glue one circle to the end of the paper-towel tube and one to each end of a toilet-tissue tube.
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Cut two 1½-inch-wide strips off the open end of the paper-towel tube, leaving two 1-inch tabs. Glue the tabs around the small tube. Decorate each player's mallet with a different-colored stripe.
To
make each ball, cut fourteen 2-inch circles out of
a used greeting card. Fold the circles in half, then
glue them together, back to front, as shown at the
right. Wrap yarn around alternating folds of the ball.
The yarn color should match the color of the stripe
on the mallet.- The wickets are made from used greeting cards. The cards should be big enough to allow the ball to pass through without touching them.
To play, each player takes a turn hitting his or her ball with the mallet, trying to get the ball through the wickets. Players take an extra turn for getting the ball through the wickets and for hitting other people’s balls. The first player through the course wins.
