Beach Bandana Checkers

crayola supplies

Erasable Colored Pencils
Fabric Markers
Model Magic®

household supplies

white paper
comb
ruler
craft sticks
bandana

Why

Create your own game…to go! Make lightweight checkers and a bandana playing board. Wrap up the checkers and you’re off to play with a friend.

Steps

1. Design your checkerboard. Lay a plain bandana flat on plain paper. Use a ruler and Crayola® Erasable Colored Pencils to measure and mark a checkerboard with eight rows of eight squares each.
2. Choose a fun theme for your board and checkers. How about seashells, bugs, or flags? Color your checkerboard with two Crayola Fabric Marker colors, one light and one dark. Alternate colors so no square touches another square of the same color. Decorate the bandana border, too, if you like. Crayola® Fabric Markers stain clothing and surfaces, CLOSE ADULT SUPERVISION IS REQUIRED.
3. Make your checkers. Design two sets of 12 checkers with two colors of Crayola Model Magic. Choose any shape that goes with your theme! Roll small balls and press flat. Press on small pieces of Model Magic to add details. Add lines and texture with a craft stick or comb. Air-dry checkers for 24 hours.
4. Designs must be heat set by an adult so it can be laundered. Set the iron to cotton. Iron on the reverse side using a back and forth motion for 4 minutes. Or put in the dryer for 30 minutes on the hottest setting.

When & Where

"We take our Beach Bandana Checkers to the park almost every afternoon."
- Julia S., parent of ages 8 and 10.

"What a cool idea! I made a set with a girl I babysit. It was so much fun, I made a game for myself, too!"
- Savannah W., teenage babysitter.

Interesting Info

To play checkers, players sit across from each other. Place checkers on all the dark squares in the first three rows on each side. The aim of the game is to capture or block all of your opponent’s pieces. Take turns moving checkers toward your opponent’s side onto the next dark square with no checker on it. A checker is captured by jumping over it onto an empty dark square. When a checker reaches a dark square on the opponent’s side, it is crowned by placing another checker on top of it. Crowned checkers can move in any direction onto an empty dark square. The winner is the player who has the most checkers on the board at the end of the game.

Safety Guidelines

Adult Assistance is required for this arts & crafts project.

Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—

Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.

Modeling Tools—Use the least dangerous point or edge sufficient to do the job. For example, craft sticks, plastic knives and forks, and cookie cutters can cut or carve modeling materials.

Wood—By its nature, wood is rough and may contain splinters or sharp points