The game of Box Croquet

Material Required to Make the Game of Box Croquet:

Three narrow cardboard boxes about seven inches long and two or three inches wide, six empty spools, a strip of strong cardboard, a bit of string, two marbles.

Tools Needed to Make the Game of Box Croquet:

A pair of scissors, a box of crayons.

Spools, to begin with, are the stakes. Glue one end of a spool to another. Stand them on end. I used large spools for bases because that is better. It makes a stake more steady. I cut two long cardboard strips each sixteen inches long and not quite an inch wide. Each, I folded through its center around a small spool and I tied the spool fast to the cardboard strip with string.

Then, I tied the two ends of cardboard together at the top of the mallet handle and I made a colored stripe with crayons on each because mallets always have to have that to make them match the balls. I chalked my marbles to match also; but if yours will not take crayon markings just simplify matters by selecting colored marbles the shade of the mallet stripes.

My Box Croquet had only five wickets. That is all that one needs for so small a game. I cut the wickets from my cardboard boxes, using the lower half of the boxes.

When you make your game, first cut this lower portion of your cardboard box into two even sections. Next, leaving a strip of the bottom, cut away most all the rest of the cardboard from each half. In this way, you make two wickets from each narrow candybox you have to use. Three boxes made six wickets but you will need only five.

Box Croquet is played as nearly as possible like real croquet. To play it, lay the game out upon a rug, making the stakes twelve inches from the end wickets. Place one wicket in a line half-way between these and a wicket at each side. Start your ball six inches from the stake.

How to play Box Croquet

Players play in turn, hitting marbles with mallets. Count out for beginner. When a marble passes through a wicket, this gives another turn. When you hit another marble, you have another turn but you must leave the other marble where it was. To win, you must go to the opposite stake, strike, and come back. The first to hit two stakes properly, according to rule, wins the game.

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