Break My Heart Game – Part 2

I spent some time tonight working on the Break My Heart game that we'll use this coming weekend.

I pulled out one of the Matchy Madness boards:



I stopped by Dollar Tree to look for buckets to use to hold the prizes.  I found this as a possible solution.  It was close to the correct size.  Maybe a little small though.



I went ahead and tried to put it on the board to see how it worked.

  

It kinda fit, but the screws just barely fit around the edge of the opening.  So I wasn't happy.  Once the tissue paper was put in the opening, I wouldn't be able to see where to put the screws.  I'm sure I would end up splitting the wood.  So I went to a different Dollar Tree.  This one had a different bucket.  I originally had been looking for buckets only that had a decent lip so I could screw into the lip and secure it to the game board.  But I found the following bucket.



This bucket has almost no lip, but it does have a couple of handles that I can use to secure it to the gameboard.

Here's a couple of the buckets positioned where they would need to go:



To secure the buckets, I'm using small screws and washers to hold down the handles:



Here's the board with three of the buckets secured to the board:



 

So now I'm going to pull the buckets off.  I'll let my wife cover the openings with tissue paper and fill the buckets with prizes.  Then I'll put all 9 buckets in place.  The final step will be to build a stand to hold the gameboard at just the right height.  I'll post pictures of the finished product this weekend.

 

 

Break My Heart Game - Part 1

Me and my wife were in Arkansas a few weeks ago while my mom was having surgery.  Sitting in the hospital, we ended up watching a lot of TV.  One of the shows we watched (which I had never seen before) was The Chew.  At one point they had a game where people had to answer questions to earn turns to punch their hand into a game board to win prizes or get surprised by what was inside.  They called the game He Said, Cheese Said (the entire episode was about cheese).

Here's a video link to the game.

http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/the-chew/episodes/January-15-2013    When you go to this link, there is a link in the episode clips called "He Said, Cheese Said".  That's the link to the game.

Once we saw it, we looked at each other and decided it would make a great Kid's Church game (with a few modifications).

So we started thinking about how to build it.  It sounded just like the game I made previously called Matchy Madness.  So we decided we would simply modify one of the game boards we used for Matchy Madness.

I grabbed one of the boards out of the shed.  Then I pulled everything off of it.  We're now thinking through how to make the game work.  We're proabably going to call it Break My Heart since we are starting a series on Love.  My wife came up with the idea to use Pat Benatar's Heartbreaker.  So we found a Karaoke version on Amazon.    I built a bumper with BluffTitler.  It's a very east way to create 3D text.  My wife's going to pull it into Premiere Pro and add the music and create the final video.

Once we get some more done, I'll post some pics of the finished product.