Whether you're a kid or an adult.. you gotta love a game of foosball. You'll all know the classic game that looks like this ... 
but with a cereal box and some toilet paper tubes, some paint & skewers you can make your very own game .. here's how!
You'll need:
1 Large Cereal Box
scissors
4 - 6 Toilet Paper Tubes (depending on size of cereal box)
8-12 Skewers (depending on number of tubes you use - you need x2 for each tube)
Ductape
Old Magazine for logos/advertisements.
Typex
Paints
Markers
Marble/ malteser/ any small ball
NB - Guys, it goes without saying don't let kids use scissors on their own or the skewers unsupervised!
Step 1
Cut the back off the cereal box. Place your toilet paper tubes inside and see how many there is room for. Remember you'll need even numbers for each team! Most cereal boxes will fit 4 tubes. You may need to reinforce any weak edges with ductape.
Step 2
Draw a Rectangle at each end of the box for the goals. Cut along the bottom and sides of the rectangle so the "goal" juts out of the box. You may need to reinforce it with ductape. .
Step 3
If using 4 "players" (i.e. paper tubes) then mark 4 dots where each skewer should go along the long side of the box. Pierce each dot with the skewers and note on the other side where you should make a parallel hole with the other skewer.
Step 4
Mark on the paper tubes where you would like to pierce them with the skewers. It should be approximately 1/3 up or half way up the height of the toilet tube. As the tubes are trickier to pierce than the cereal box. you may need the help of a small scissors to pierce a hole each side. 
Step 5
Take a break from the measuring and get the colours out! If you don't want to use paints this is a great project for decoupage (see our recipe for home made glue here), crayons or markers.
In order to make your box a stadium for the match, colour the bottom green, put a 2cm height panel along the sides as your advertising banners and draw some simple circle faces and fill them in so you have a cheering (or angry soccer crowd!). Alternatively you could cut out faces from magazines or old photographs.
I used some old magazines to find small logos of famous companies and cut them out and glued them onto the border panel.
When the 'grass' is dry, simply paint your field lines with typex or white paint.
Step 6
Paint or colour in your players! Again you can use paint, markers or decoupage them. You could even add bobble eyes, wool for hair or glue on fabric to the tubes. Note where the holes are for the skewers. That's the sides of the player (imagine it right on their hips) and paint them accordingly to scale. This usually works out about 1/3 head 1/3 body and 1/3 shorts. Once dry add details like a name/title and number to your player.
Step 7 Pre-cut some ductape and leave it handy. Place your skewers (pointy tip) in each side of the tube and carefully tape the skewers together inside the toilet paper tube
. This is tricky but make sure to apply lots of tape so the skewers are totally joined together and wont fall out. Test to see that you can rotate the skewers and your player moves with you so he/she can hit the ball.
Step 8
Carefully insert one end of the skewer into the hole on one side of the pitch. Draw it out so you can then get the other side of the skewer into the hole at other side of the pitch. Your player should now be 'on the field' and ready to move from side to side and swing about to hit the ball.
Insert all players and the ball... and its match time!
