{"id":2702,"date":"2023-07-06T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/halloween-tic-tac-toe\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:11:08","slug":"halloween-tic-tac-toe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/kids\/halloween-tic-tac-toe\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Tic-Tac-Toe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Get ready for some spooky fun this Halloween with a ghoulish twist on the classic tic-tac-toe game! Players will use creepy, hand-painted stone<\/a> counters, featuring eerie pumpkins and eyeballs, to outwit their opponents in a battle of strategy and scares. Perfect for adding a bit of playful Halloween spirit to any gathering!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get ready for some spooky fun this Halloween with a ghoulish twist on the classic tic-tac-toe game! Players will use creepy, hand-painted stone counters, featuring eerie pumpkins and eyeballs, to outwit their opponents in a battle of strategy and scares. Perfect for adding a bit of playful Halloween spirit to any gathering!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,297,244,227,475,229],"tags":[657,583,671],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kids","category-toys","category-halloween","category-occasions","category-pumpkin","category-themes","tag-games-toys","tag-halloween","tag-pumpkin"],"acf":{"age":["3-5","6-9","10+"],"skill-level":["Beginner"],"time-to-make":["1 hour"],"idea-type":["Craft Projects","Art Projects"],"free-printable":"","ID":"K298","time":"1 hour","skill_level":"Easy","how_to_make":"

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  1. Tic-tac-toe is a 2 player game. The first step is to make 2 types of counters. To make the eyeball counters - paint a stone white using Pebeo glossy deco acrylic paint. Leave to dry. Add another coat. Leave to dry.<\/li>\r\n
  2. Using black the glass painting, outline pen draw a black circle in the middle of the stone to make the pupil. Leave to dry.<\/li>\r\n
  3. Using any coloured deco pen, colour a circle around the outside of the black pupil. Leave to dry.<\/li>\r\n
  4. Using a white deco pen, draw a small circle on the top edge of the black pupil to make the shine on the eye.<\/li>\r\n
  5. Using a red deco pen, draw lots of wiggly lines around the sides of the eyeball to make the spooky eyeball veins. Leave to dry. Repeat steps 1-5 on 4 more stones so that you have 5 eyeball counters.<\/li>\r\n
  6. Other counter ideas: Pumpkins, Cats or Ghosts. You will only need 2 types of counters per game.<\/li>\r\n
  7. Paint and decorate another set of 5 counters.<\/li>\r\n
  8. To make the board, a square from a sheet of A3 green card roughly 30cm x 30cm (or any colour of your choice).<\/li>\r\n
  9. Using a roll of glitter tape, tape down 2 vertical lines roughly 8cm apart.<\/li>\r\n
  10. Tape 2 horizontal lines roughly 8cm apart to make 9 8cm squares.<\/li>\r\n
  11. To play, each player takes it in turns to lay a counter on the board. The first player to match 3 counters in a row wins.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","shopping_list":"
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    • Paintbrush<\/li>\r\n
    • Scissors<\/li>\r\n
    • Glue dots<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","shopping_list_2":"","top_tip":"You can make your own version of this game by creating other spooky Halloween character stones such as white ghosts and black cats etc.","image_01":72717,"step_instruction_01":"","image_02":72718,"step_instruction_02":"","image_03":72719,"step_instruction_03":"","image_04":"","step_instruction_04":"","image_05":"","step_instruction_05":"","image_06":"","step_instruction_06":"","template":"","related_projects":"2722,2712,2717,2707,8302","latest_idea_content":"most-recent","show_date":false,"adult_supervision_needed":"Yes","youtube_video":"","products":"FX125,AV535,AV617,AX112,AW978,AW239,AT759","fbt_products":"","recommendation_products":""},"view_count":10,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82001,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/82001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}