Mancala

What You’ll Need:

• cardboard
• ruler
• scissors
• 12-cup egg carton
• markers
• two single-serving cereal boxes
• colored paper
• glue
• pennies, buttons, dried beans, or pebbles
• paint

How to Make It:

1. Cut out a 4-inch-by-15-inch piece of cardboard.

   	Mancala is known as wari in Ghana, where this game was made.

2. Cut off and discard the top of a 12-cup egg carton. Cut the flap off the base. Use markers to decorate the base.

3. Cut off the top from two single-serving cereal boxes so that the bottom of each is 1¼ inches high. Cover them with colored paper.

4. Glue the egg-carton base in the center of the cardboard with one cereal-box bottom at each end.

5. For counters, use 48 pennies, buttons, dried beans, or pebbles. If you wish, paint them. (The colors of the counters don’t matter.)

Click here to learn how to play mancala.