DIY Chess Set

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Learn how to make your very own chess set with a few simple supplies!

Supplies: 

  1. 2 pieces of paper
  2. 32 beans
  3. Markers

Instructions:

  1. Grab one sheet of paper and turn it hamburger style (horizontal).
  2. You will fold the paper in half 3 times. You should be folding from left to right. 
  1. At the folder, using a marker, draw a line from edge to edge. There should be 7 folds/lines total.
  1. Keeping the paper hamburger style, you will fold the paper 2 times from top to bottom.
  1. At the folder, using a marker, draw a line from edge to edge. There should be 3 folds/lines total. 
  1. Good Job! You created the bottom half of the chess board. Repeat steps 1-5 with the other piece of paper. That piece of paper will go on top of the first. 
  2. Next color the bottom left corner box. You’ll color every other square both vertical (upward) and horizontal (sideways) until your board looks like the one below. 
  1. Now for the pieces. You will need 16 raw beans for player 1. You will also need 6 different colored markers. We will be using black, green, pink, yellow, blue and red. (If you use different colors, make sure you write down which color represents what figure).
  2. You will need :
    1. 8 Pawns: black
    2. 2 Rooks: green
    3. 2 Knights: pink
    4. 2 Bishops: yellow
    5. 1 King: blue
    6. 1 Queen: red
  3. For player 2, repeat sets 8 and 9. For player two, instead coloring the entire bean, only color half the bean. This will be how you tell player 1 & 2’s pieces apart.