Rainy afternoon? Those empty Cheeky Panda boxes in your recycling bin are about to become the most competitive game in your house. Little football stars and family tournaments in the making.
What You’ll Need
- Empty Cheeky Panda dry wipe or tissue box
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Pencil
- 2 straws
- White card or leftover tissue box
- Coloured pens or pencils
- Googly eyes (optional)
- Sellotape
- 1 tissue
- Black marker pen
How to Make It
- Carefully cut the top side off the tissue box.
- Using a ruler, mark four holes for the straws. On a dry wipe box, 3.5cm from each side and 1.5cm down from the top works perfectly. (Adjust if your box is different.)
- Carefully make the holes using a pencil or hole punch.
- Thread the two straws through the box.
- Create your footballers. Cut out rectangles from an empty tissue box—1.5 inches x 3 inches is a good size.
- Draw your footballers, add googly eyes if you want, and colour them in. Give them names. Make them competitive.
- Centre the footballers on the straws and tape them to the back.
- Create a football by scrunching a tissue into a ball and wrapping it with sticky tape.
- Add black dots with a marker pen to make it look like a proper football.
- You’re ready for kickoff.
How to Play
Each player controls one straw. Twist and tilt your straw to move your footballer around the box and try to kick the tissue ball into the opponent’s “goal.” First to score two out of three wins bragging rights until the next round.
Want more ideas for reusing your Cheeky Panda packaging? Check out our full guide: How to Reuse Cheeky Panda Packaging
