Tangram Rubber Stamps DIY!

 A Tangram is a Chinese dissection puzzle consisting of 7 flat shapes. They all fit perfectly in one square. My dad is a Mathematician.  He collects "smart games". He loves all sorts of thinking games, puzzles and riddles. So I grew up putting tangrams together. You can even make all sorts of things with the pieces...animals, people, things!  Since geometric anything is all the rage, I though it would be fun to make a  Rubber Stamp Tangram and make cards! This would be so fun to make for a teacher appreciation gift--A little stack of cards and some envelopes wrapped in twine! Or just to send someone a smile in the mail!  Here's the Tangram. There's a cool website that explains it all here.   Supplies: Pink Carving Rubber:  I got mine here... Speedball Carving Block (you could do with with pink rubber erasers or scraps of cling mounted rubber) Hobby Knife Ruler, pen, scissors, 1.5" square paper Rubber Stamping Ink Pads or Cray...

Yahtzee Card Freebie Printables!

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Color Coded Sodoku Game!

 Color Coded Sodoku Game! Have you guys ever played Sodoku? I hate it...I mean look at this confusion!  Okay, so basically the numbers 1-9 are used... but only one time each in an entire row (vertical & horizontal) and only once in each box of 9. Confusing! Well, my adorable parents came up with a fabulous solution! Color coded.  Genius! This makes it a fun game for the entire family to play together. Doesn't matter what side of the board you are sitting on! First off you need a blank grid. Right click to save off and print!  (I laminated mine) Now you need glass gem pebbles. We got combo bags at Michael's and Hobby Lobby. 9 different colors. Then each color is representing a value...doesn't really matter which is which. But we go in rainbow order: Red=1, orange=2, yellow=3, green=4, blue=5, purple=6, brown=7, white=8 and gray=9 Then you'll need to set up the board...get an easy book at the dollar store and go off of that...or just ...