Handmade Lottery Draws Kids Will Love! A Fun Collection of Ideas to Make and Play
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.
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Handmade Raffle That Kids Will Love! A Collection of Fun Ideas to Make and Play (11–20)
triangle omikuji
Here’s an idea: let’s make pyramid-shaped fortune tellers using origami! Cut a square sheet of origami paper in half to make a rectangle, then fold in the creases and assemble it into a 3D shape.
Write “win” or “lose” messages inside, and you’re done! The finished size is very small, which makes them super cute.
You can add originality by using patterned paper or drawing your own designs on the surface.
Make lots of them for a bright and festive set of fortunes!
Paper cup lottery
This is a simple lottery game you can make with paper cups.
Just put a prize inside the paper cup and cover it with origami paper secured by a rubber band—that’s it! There’s no need for scissors, so it’s easy enough for kids to make too.
When taking out the contents, you can remove the rubber band and open it, but it’s also fun to punch through the origami cover from the top and tear it open! If the prize doesn’t fit in the paper cup, write the prize on a slip of paper, put that inside, and hand the prize separately.
It’s perfect for a small festival at home.
Lottery Catcher
This one lets you draw lots using a crane game mechanism.
Let’s make this handmade raffle that’s sure to be a hit with kids! Build the base frame out of cardboard.
Thread strings through it so you can operate the crane.
For the ceiling of the crane’s control base, use bamboo skewers or a tension rod.
Make the crane itself out of cardboard as well; if you can add an opening-and-closing mechanism, combine it with the base.
Don’t forget to create a spot in the base’s cardboard where the tickets fall inside, and an opening where you can take the fallen tickets out! Once everything is finished, put the paper tickets you made inside and you’re done.
Fishing lottery
This lottery works like fishing: you “catch” prizes as if you were catching fish.
Place prizes randomly inside a large case, and participants use a fishing rod to hook them.
There are various setups, such as attaching magnets to both the prizes and the rod, or hooking the rod onto a clip or a hole made in the prize.
You can also have participants fish only for lottery tickets and then give prizes based on the ticket they catch.
Unlike goldfish scooping, there’s no need to prepare water, making this an easy and convenient lottery game!
Lottery Draw Hunt
Like fruit picking, participants “pick” suspended lottery slips.
String lines across the room and attach slips at intervals with clothespins or clips.
On each slip, write a prize number or the prize name itself.
That’s all the prep! Then everyone can enjoy drawing by taking them one by one.
To add a game element, you could include penalty “duds,” or make it a treasure-hunt style challenge to find winning slips within a time limit—both sound fun!
Advent calendar–style lottery ticket
Once December begins, one of the Christmas traditions children look forward to is the Advent calendar.
Typically, you open one small box each day to find a treat inside.
But how about using that box mechanism for a lottery-style drawing? Write numbers on the drawers, declare “I’m opening number X!” and then open it to find a ticket inside.
Since you can’t see what’s inside, it really heightens the excitement and anticipation of a lucky draw.
It’s also great that you can customize it as a handmade craft.
Handmade raffle that kids will love! A fun collection of ideas to make and play with (21–30)
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Raffles are also games that kids can enjoy casually.
Simply pulling a folded piece of construction paper can be exciting, but if you have time, why not make a raffle modeled after Ichiban Kuji? Prepare two sheets of construction paper in the size of the tickets; cut slits into one sheet so the pieces can be peeled open.
Since this involves fine work with a craft knife, an adult should handle it.
It might be a good idea to have the children take charge of preparing the prizes.
Let’s liven up the summer festival with a raffle that makes everyone excited to see what they’ll win.
