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Handmade Lottery Draws Kids Will Love! A Fun Collection of Ideas to Make and Play

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Get excited with family and friends! How about creating special memories with a homemade lottery draw? We’ll show you how to make surprisingly simple raffles—like dropping-lot lotteries, garapon wheels, and gashapon-style draws—that kids and adults alike will love.

Using everyday materials like cardboard and origami, you can achieve a professional-looking finish.

Perfect for festivals and events, and great for doubling the fun during everyday playtime too! From working together to build it to the thrilling moment of drawing a ticket, you’ll enjoy wonderful, smile-filled moments.

Handmade Lottery Games Kids Will Love! A Fun Collection of Ideas to Make and Play (1–10)

triangle lottery ticket

[Sanrio DIY] My Aunt Went All Out! I Tried Making a Homemade Lottery with a Satisfying Peel-Off Sound ★ [Endless Peeling]

triangle lottery ticket

If you want to do a quick raffle, you can just fold up some paper and toss it into an empty box—but here’s an idea for making the kind of triangular tickets you see at shops.

That crisp tearing sound when you peel them open is so satisfying and really builds excitement! You can make them with things from a 100-yen shop: your favorite origami paper, cardstock, a perforation cutter, double-sided tape, and so on.

Making a lot of them can be a bit of work, but once you get the hang of the perforation cutter, it’s easy.

Try making them with origami featuring characters kids love!

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Thousand-String Lottery

[How-To] Perfect for festivals and events! Easy string lottery (Himo-kuji) making guide

Thousand-String Lottery

Senbon-kuji, the “thousand-string lottery,” is a common sight at festival stalls.

There are lots of strings, each attached to a prize, and you randomly pick and pull any string you like.

You can see what prizes are available, but because there are so many strings and you can’t tell which one connects to which prize, that’s what makes it fun! To make a senbon-kuji, first prepare a large box that can hold a fair number of prizes.

Make as many holes in the box as there are strings, and thread strings through the holes, attaching a clothespin or clip to one end.

The key is to lightly bundle all the threaded strings together with a rubber band or a tube-shaped item like a toilet paper roll.

Bundling them makes it even harder to tell which string will win.

After that, just clip the prizes onto the clothespins or clips and you’re done! Decorate the area where the strings come out however you like.

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lottery machine (garagara/garapon)

[Cardboard Craft] What color will come out? How to make a Garapon (Bingo) machine ★How to make a Bingo machine★

lottery machine (garagara/garapon)

The lottery game “garapon” everyone knows—you can actually make one by hand using cardboard! It’s a great idea not only for festivals and events, but also as a cardboard craft to enjoy with your kids.

First, make the main body of the garapon, then create the internal mechanism.

As long as you get the mechanism right, the process shouldn’t be too difficult.

Leaving the cardboard as-is is perfectly fine, but you can also paint and decorate it to create a lovely finished piece, depending on your preference.

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Handmade Raffle That Kids Will Love! A Collection of Fun Ideas to Make and Play (11–20)

Milk Carton Roulette

Try your luck by inserting a coin♪ A milk carton roulette that also works as a piggy bank

Milk Carton Roulette

If you want to try something a bit unusual, how about making a roulette-style omikuji (fortune) device? It works by installing a milk carton folded like a gear inside a box.

When you insert a coin or similar object through the side of the box, the gear rotates under the weight, and a roulette linked to a central shaft spins.

You can enjoy the fun of crafting plus the experimental excitement of science! It might also build your problem-solving skills—like figuring out what material to use for the shaft so it spins as much as possible.

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Mini Omikuji

[Origami] Mini Omikuji ♪ New Year / Draw instantly, draw again and again! Easy

Mini Omikuji

Let’s make a mini version of omikuji—the fortune slips you draw at New Year—and enjoy a little lottery game! Use small origami paper to make a hexagonal tube-shaped container for the slips.

Toothpicks are perfect for the fortunes you put inside.

Since the pointed ends can be dangerous, it’s best to cut them off first.

Then, on each toothpick, write things like “Great Blessing” or “Small Blessing,” or simply “Win” and “Lose.” Once you’ve finished writing, place them in the origami container and you’re done! You can enjoy it as a simple drawing game, or prepare custom papers with detailed fortunes to match the results, or even have prizes ready.

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Scratch card

[Super Easy] Two Ways to Make DIY Scratch Cards!

Scratch card

A scratch card you scrape with a coin to see if you win or lose—you might wonder, can you really make one? In fact, it’s very easy.

All you need is paper, clear tape, dish soap, acrylic paint, and a pen.

First, draw your “win,” “lose,” or any illustrations on the paper, then cover the drawings with clear tape.

Next, paint over the tape with a mixture of dish soap and acrylic paint.

Once the painted layer dries, it’s done! Just like the scratch-off tickets you see in stores, you can use a coin to scratch the surface and reveal the image underneath.

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disposable chopstick lottery

How to make a lottery with disposable chopsticks! Perfect for prize drawings at home parties♪

disposable chopstick lottery

Many people might first think of using this to make a lottery-style draw.

This is a chopstick lottery made with disposable chopsticks and a paper carton.

Cut the paper carton so the tips of the chopsticks can stick out, shape it into a box, and decorate it.

Then mark one of the chopsticks as a winner, put them in the carton, and you’re done! It’s like the stick omikuji you find at shrines.

It’s simple and super easy, so even small children can make it together.

That’s why it’s also recommended for craft time at kindergartens and daycare centers!

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