Game Box

The main things you'll need for this project is:

a metal box
48 small round magnets
decorative and/ or coloured duct tape
a print-out of a chess board
black and white/silver sharpies

*Majority of the items were purchased from Michaels craft store* www.michaels.com/

First thing that I did was make up a chess board using my drawing program, but can easily do a search on the internet. In either case, the image has to be scaled to fit the size of your lid for the metal box. The lid will become a playing surface for chess or checkers. I held the chess board on with 4 magnets as I cut pieces of tape to fit around the lid. I chose the duct tape for the lid since it was a plain red and act as a frame around the board. Then I used the decorative tape as a border around the box. You can used any pattern   that you want. I found a tape that had different typefaces of the letter 'L', which I thought worked well with my name. Next I laid out the magnets on the board and began painting the tops of half of them with the silver sharpie. These become your chess and checker pieces. Using the same sharpie I wrote the first and last letter on the 8 main black chess pieces. Then I did the same one the silver ones, only with the black sharpie. With that done, all I had to do was fill my new game box with a variety of game pieces; 2 packs of playing cards, dice, a puzzle book, note book and pen (for keeping score during complicated games), and scans of games that I found in the Yu-Gi-Oh manga series. I'll include a few in this post, but for the other games, it's best to check out the series for yourself.