Pinliner

Topic
- Arts & crafts
Learning skills
- Creative thinking
- Calculating & counting
- Fine motor skills
Activity type
- Crafting & constructing
- Physical distancing
Materials
- Basic
- Self-made
Age
- 6 - 11 years
- 12 - 14 years
5 - 15 minutes
1 player
Intermediate
Calm
Small (office, pavement)

Contributors

Arnoud

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Everything you need to play this game

Nails
Wooden panel
Hammer
Ruler
Rope in different colours
Scissor
(Coloured) paper
Pencils
Stickers

Make it yourself

Step 1

Create a background for the wooden panel

Use coloured paper, pencils, stickers to make a background for your wooden panel.

Step 2

Make a grid on the wooden panel

Measure the wooden panel.
Take a pencil and point every 1cm vertically and horizontally.

Step 3

Hammer the nails into the wooden panel

You can use a peg to grab the nail and make sure all the nails are hit at the same height into the panel.

Good job!

A step-by-step guide to play the game

Let the kids put the ropes to the appropriate position on the pinliner board so they can create the image as shown in the instructions aside.

Extra game information

Panel = made of wood with 121 pins on it in a matrix order of 11 x 11 pins

Distance between the pins = 5 cm

Variations

Connecting colours with the rope (f. ex. triangle, square)
Connecting numbers with the rope (f. ex. house)
Connecting letters with the rope (f. ex. windmill)
Using a matrix position: combine letters (rows) with numbers (columns) based on the instruction on the board. Write the column position description on top of the panel and the row position description on the left side of the panel.

Specific learning objectives

Learning to concentrate on a task until it is finished

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