My Mom is a big Yahtzee fan. My entire childhood she begged me to play with her. It’s not really my fav, so it became a running joke, “wanna play Yahtzee?” Anything but that!
I came across a Lawn Yahtzee game on Pinterest and the giant wooden dice looked like the coolest thing I had ever seen. I had grand ideas of making the huge wooden dice and a large chalk-board score board… After the way the rest of my gifts have been going this summer, I decided to simplify.
My track record this year with Pinterest-inspired gifts or my own grand ideas has been one fail after another! Image transfer to wood = fail. Stained handprint tool belt = fail. Homemade shrinky-dinks from #6 plastic = fail.
I had half the battle figured out months ago when I came across some over-sized foam dice at the dollar store. I think they came in packs of two… So I spent about three dollars, and got a group of orange ones.
I was still planning on creating an impressive wooden scoreboard with chalkboard paint. I think I asked both my husband and dad a few dozen times if they had the right sized piece of wood. Both assured me they did but, after a couple months of asking, we were nearing the deadline and I never got them to actually produce this board I was asking for… repeatedly…
I finally decided it would be a safe idea to pick up a large dry-erase board. It would be easy to return or reuse for another purpose if I did manage to complete the wooden scoreboard.
When I picked up two fun colors of Duct Tape for another project, I had an idea!
So, I give you The Duct Tape Decorated Over-Sized Yahtzee Game!
I know this would definitely be better with some help from a Silhouette – I picture beautiful vinyl lettering… A girl can dream… But it turned out alright.
Check out a sneak peak of the other projects I purchases the Duck Tape for!
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Cute idea! My parents have a huge yard and this would be fun for summer evenings! Visiting from Shine on Friday!
Oh my goodness, how fun! We use to play this game all the time when I was a kid. {Regular sized, of course 🙂 }
How fun! This would be great for a party!
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Thanks for sharing,
Laura
Great idea for outside fun! Love it. And those dang husbands and fathers! 😉 Stop by my Friday’s Five Features this week and link up this post (and others)! diy-vintage-chic.blogspot.com
There is something about being giant or tiny that makes something instantly better. How fun!
So much fun!!
NO WAY ! I want to have a party just to do this! If you have any desserts you love, we’d love for you to come over to our newest link party over at The Inspiration Network: DELISH- a desserts only link party. Bring your desserts and let’s party!!
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Smiles,
Melanie and Diana
The Inspiration Network
Where did you get the dice?
Hi Kenny,
I actually found these at the Dollar Tree. It was a few years ago now, but I believe I saw them there within the last year. They do have them on the website too – https://www.dollartree.com/2-5-in-Large-Foam-Dice-2-ct-Packs/p343040/index.pro