The little guy LOVES Batman.
It all started when he got a huge tub of Matchbox cars from the boys next door. His favorite car, out of hundreds, was a Batmobile. I told him all about who drove the Batmobile and we slowly grew the obsession.
{I have to admit that Batman is my favorite superhero, too. I used to watch “Batman: The Animated Series” after high school in the 1990’s.}
One day this summer the little guy and I did a fun project while the baby girl was napping.
He bought a black and white checkerboard gameboard at a garage sale and kept wanting to play his “new game”. I kept telling him that it didn’t have game pieces and that we would need to make some.
So we did.
Here are the supplies we used:
I had all of these supplies on hand to make glass bead magnets for Christmas gifts when the little guy was a baby.
- circle craft punch
- flat glass marbles
- magnetic sheeting
- modge podge
- scissors
I found images for Batman and the Joker online and resized them to fit the glass marble (about 1″ x 1″). I printed about 16 per 8-1/2″ x 11″ sheet of paper and cut them out using the circle craft punch.
I also cut circles out of the magnetic sheeting.
I slathered one side of the magnetic sheeting with modge podge…
…placed the Joker or Batman logo on the magnetic sheeting…
…slathered the flat side of the flat marbles with more modge podge…
…and made a magnetic sheeting, logo, flat marble sandwich. I did this 14 times for Batman and 14 times for the Joker.
I placed all of them under a BIG, HEAVY book until the modge podge dried (the next morning).
After the arch enemies had a good nights rest under “The New Hunter’s Encyclopedia” I trimmed the magnetic sheeting that stuck out around the flattened marbles.
I also found a Batman vs. Joker image and modge podged it to the middle of the game board.
And, we play it like Checkers!
Of course, I am always the Joker.
And, the little guy is Batman.
home is…game time.
*today I am linking up with Today’s Creative Blog…
stephany taddeo 