Celebrating International Sports Day: Creating a Tabletop Soccer Game!🏓⚽

I started by cutting 12 squares of white foam measuring 1.5 cm wide and 1 cm high, 6 squares of red foam measuring 2x2 cm, 6 squares of blue foam also measuring 2x2 cm, and 12 squares of skin-colored foam of approximately 1x1 cm. I drew a small line with a pencil on the white squares in the middle, touching only one side, to simulate shorts. For the blue and red squares, I trimmed part of the sides to mimic the shape of a shirt and added some details with pencil.

I glued these pieces onto small wooden popsicle sticks, leaving about 1 cm from one corner of the stick and first attaching the shorts, then the shirt, and finally the skin-colored square representing the head. This way, I created 12 players—6 for each team (6 red and 6 blue).

To finish assembling our table:

I took the field I had made, already with the skewers inserted, and began gluing each of the 12 players on them. On the first skewer, I placed 3 blue players, on the second skewer, 3 red players, on the third skewer, 3 blue players looking in the opposite direction of the previous ones, and on the fourth skewer, 3 red players in the same way as those on the third skewer. I left about 3 cm of distance between each player on every skewer.

And there you have it! With this little table, you can use a marble to simulate the ball, turning it into a game that you can enjoy while spending quality time with your loved ones.

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^{All photographs are my own, taken with my iPhone XR.
The cover was published on the BeFunky website.}

^{I added a Hive logo popsocket to my craft photo, which I was given at a small booth during a Hive promotion at my university. This proves that it's 100% original content for the platform.}