If you have been following the blog for awhile now, you'll have noticed that J loves numbers. Correction. He is obsessed with numbers. He lives and breathes numbers. Well, J also loves to watch and play basketball with his daddy. He loved to keep track of the score while my husband shoots hoops. So one day, my husband suggested making a scoreboard for J to keep track of the score on. Little did I know that J would spend hours, upon hours, playing with it. It also stores nicely in a freezer bag so it has been added to our busy bag collection.
That's about right...I'm kicking my husband's butt!
Materials
- Cardboard
- Felt
- Velcro dots
- Foam letters
- Hot glue
- Scissors
- Ribbon
I hot glued a piece of green felt to a piece of cardboard. I believe it was a cracker box. Then I cut out a T shape out of white felt and glued it on. I also hot glued a piece of ribbon to the back so that it could be hung up. I'm not sure why I bothered since it has never been hung up. So the ribbon is completely optional. I also hot glued two velcro pieces at the top of the scoreboard. Our name cards attach to the velcro pieces.
I cut up four rectangle pieces that would fit above the T shape on the scoreboard. Next, I hot glued foam stickers that spelled our names (K's had to be abbreviated since his name is too long) onto the rectangle pieces. I then glued some velcro on the back.
I made four sets of each number from 0-9. That way the score could be 22-22 or 44-44, etc. I free handed all the numbers. It honestly did not take that long to cut them. In fact, I did it while the boys finished their lunch one day.
Like I said, this scoreboard has kept J busy for hours. Many, many hours. All thanks to a great suggestion from my awesome husband.
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