Cheese game with holes

A do-it-yourself game of skill for small and large mice. This colourful and fun game is relatively quick to build and even the little ones can lend a helping hand.

The aim is to pull the mouse as far up as possible without it falling through the holes in the cheese.

Design the cheese:

Using the wooden ring, draw several circles on the stretched canvas with a pencil. Make sure that the holes are not too far apart, otherwise the game will be too easy afterwards. Cut out the marked circles with scissors.
Paint the entire stretched canvas with the VBS craft paint "Buttercup". Paint shading around the holes with the "grey-brown" paint.
To ensure that the stretched canvas stands upright after completion, make angles from square mouldings and glue them to the back. The mitre cutting set is ideal for sawing these to size.
Glue two wooden rings together with VBS handicraft glue. Once dry, screw a screw eyelet into one of the two wooden rings from the outside. If this is too difficult, you can also pre-drill with a hand drill. Also screw a screw eyelet into the upper corners of the stretched canvas. The wooden ring will be attached to these later.

Make the mouse:

Paint the wooden discs and a cut-out circle from the canvas with "Stone grey" VBS craft paint. Cut out two small ears and a small tail from the grey canvas circle.
Paint on the inner ears and the little nose with the VBS craft paint "Old pink". Glue the wobbly eyes, the ears and the little tail to the wooden discs using VBS handicraft glue. It is important that nothing protrudes beyond the wooden discs so that the mouse can fit through the holes.

Attach the mouse to the cheese:

Cut off about 2 metres of the warp yarn, take it in duplicate and pull it through the eyelet on the wooden ring. Then thread one ribbon through each eyelet on the stretched canvas. A wooden ball can be knotted onto the end of the ribbon.

Now the game can begin: The wooden ring is at the bottom of the stretched canvas. The mouse is placed in the wooden ring. The aim is to use the two strings to pull the wooden ring up the stretched canvas without the mouse falling through one of the holes. The higher the better.