Do you want to make your DIY table soccer at home? Is Foos ball table too expensive to buy?
Like football? Want to play soccer even during the rainy days? With the FIFA World Cup just over, everyone is still talking about it after a long while. If you are organising a sport themed party, then this craft will be perfect.
I spotted some young children at World Cup screening even if they were so late in the night! To satisfy your child’s interest in football, this a craft that you can do with your child.
Yes, you can make your very own DIY foos ball table!! ole ole ole ole… goal!!
What you need:
- Shoebox
- wooden dowel/balloon stick
- printer for printing the templates
- 1x white paper
- 1x green paper(A4)
- Cardboard (if you can the cover of the shoebox)
- Colouring material
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- double sided tape
Step 1: Poke holes on the sides.
Remove the top of the shoebox (if any). Poke 4 holes on the longer sides of the shoe box.(i.e. total of 8 holes) The distance apart depends on the size of your shoe box. Space them equally apart. Our shoe box is about 32cm long, if yours is bigger, you can consider having more holes (hence more players).
Step 2: Make the goal “net”
Cut out 2 rectangles on the shorter side of the shoe box. If you want to put nets there you can, but it’s not necessary—the bigger the goal, the easily to score. Ours is about 5 x 10cm.
Step 3: Create the turf
Download the turf here and print them on green construction paper. Trim and use glue to paste it down inside the box.
Step 4: Make the players
Download the players template here and print them on white paper. Decorate them to your favourite teams. If you have 4 sticks, you will need 6 players (2-1) in total. If you have 6 sticks (2-2-1), you will need 10 players in total. Glue them on cardboard (you can use the shoe cover which you don’t need). Cut them out.
You can also buy stickers of numbers and use them.
Step 5: Attach Players to Stick
Using double side tapes, attached the players to the sticks like so. Wooden dowels are preferred because they don’t warp like plastic balloon sticks.
Put the players on the sticks. (1 for the goalkeeper, 2 for the midfielders)
Step 6: Add stoppers and handles
Add stoppers and handles on the other side. You can use the excess cardboard which you have and wrap them around.
Step 7: Get a soccer ball
I found a keychain that has a rubber soccer ball. I cut off the keychain and tada, I have a soccer ball.
Step 8: Have fun!
Make your own DIY Table soccer and let us know how it went!