Shoebox Mini Foosball Table

Author: U Create
Category: Cardboard
Published: 03/08/2022

Supplies

• Shoe box
• Small wooden dowels (make sure these are longer than the width of the shoe box)
• Utility knife
• Marker pen
• Ruler
• Hot glue gun and glue
• Wrapping paper (to decorate the box)
• Spray paint
• Tape
• Ping Pong balls or large marble

Instructions

1. Determine how many 'players' you want on the dowels. For a typical shoe box, ideally each team has two dowels each, with three players on each of the middle dowels and two goalies on the end dowels.
2. Stand the clothes pegs up on the dowel and put the dowel right against the outside of the box (see photo below). Put a mark of the hole above the point where the dowel touches the box, ensuring that there is enough space for the pegs to spin around without hitting the bottom of the box.
3. Make a hole on your marks by pushing the tip of the knife in and turning it around. Alternatively, you may be able to use a hole punch.
4. Push the dowels through the holes and mark the inside of the box where you want the hole on the other side. Make the holes for the other side of the box.
5. To determine where you want the pegs placed, put the dowels and clothes pegs in the box where you want them. Mark the points of the dowels where you want the pegs to go.
6. Hot glue the pegs onto the dowels.
7. Once dry, paint or spray paint the dowels in two different colors of your choice.
8. Cover the box with wrapping paper, then cut out a goal on either end of the box. Ensure it is big enough to let the ball through.
9. Put the dowels in carefully, by sliding one end in through the inside of the box, then the other side.