Canvas Checkerboard

Kids who learn to play checkers will always have something to do on a rainy day . Kids who make their own portable checkerboard will have a game to play almost anywhere. Collect bottle caps in opposing colors you need 12 for each side or use tempera or acrylic paints to paint the tops of mismatched caps with a color of your choice/ Bottle caps stack easily, making for very regal kings.

How to

Using pinking shears cut a square of canvas that 12 by 12 inches. With a knife, slice a plastic art eraser into a square that's 1 1/2 by 1 1/2 inches. this will be the stamp. Begin by stamping a single square in one corner of the board;stamp a second catercorner to the first,then add a third square along the border, catercorner from the second and a full square space from the first.

Continue to fill the board,your finished board will have eight squares four stamped and four blank in each row and column