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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3D lottery box
Omikuji, the fortune slips drawn at the start of the New Year, are used to predict what kind of year lies ahead.
Of course, many people also draw omikuji not only during the New Year but for things like wishing for success on entrance exams.
Let’s try making a fun, game-like omikuji by hand.
You can use familiar items like origami paper to prepare.
Three-dimensional omikuji come in various shapes, such as simple triangles, pyramids, rectangles, and squares.
If you make them with colorful or patterned origami paper, they turn out very cute and fun.
Tiger Candy Fortune
How about using fortune slips in small packets? Cut colored paper into squares and fold them together with double-sided tape applied along the edges.
Then fold both sides again, puffing it up as if to add air to make a candy-bag shape.
Put the fortune slip inside, draw a tiger’s face on the outside, and you’re done! The more you make, the cuter they’ll look.
It doesn’t have to be a tiger—any animal illustration will do—but drawing the zodiac animal of the year might be auspicious.
Potato Fortune
Hit the jackpot if you pull a ketchup-coated one! This potato fortune-draw is perfect for deciding turn order in games.
The “potatoes” are made from, believe it or not, puzzle mats.
Cut a puzzle mat into suitable sizes, wrap them with double-sided fabric tape, and stick on felt.
For a few winning pieces, add red felt to the tip or color them with a pen.
Arrange the potatoes in a container deep enough to fully hide the ketchup part, and you’re done.
They look super cute, so when not in use, it’s also a great idea to display them in the kids’ room!
Shishimai Omikuji
Here’s an idea for a festive fortune-drawing gadget.
Combine cut-out face parts with a red box to make a Shishimai (lion dance) fortune machine.
Download an image of a Shishimai face, print it, cut it out, and have it ready.
If your box isn’t red, cover it with colored paper to get the right look.
For the mouth where people reach in to draw their fortune, use a rubber sink strainer cover to obscure the inside.
Cut a hole in the box, attach the strainer cover, arrange the Shishimai face parts around it, and you’re done! You’ll have something perfect for the New Year season!
Omikuji Gacha
It’s a milk carton fortune-telling gacha that’s irresistible for the excitement when you turn the handle.
Open up a milk carton and cut off the spout, then cut out the handle, window, and the part that will be the capsule exit.
Attach a clear file sheet or plastic board to the inside of the window.
Add an internal mechanism so the capsules come out smoothly, reassemble the milk carton, and insert a toilet paper roll to serve as the handle—your gacha is complete! After that, just load it with capsules containing fortunes.
Finally, decorate the outside freely with paper and pens.
Hanging-type thousand-lot lottery
Recommended for those who want to make a space-saving lottery string game (senbon-kuji)! This is a hanging type idea using a shallow box.
First, remove the lid from the box and make holes for the strings in the bottom of the box body and the ceiling of the lid.
Next, thread the strings—each connected to a prize—through the holes, then reassemble the box body and lid.
However, because you can see which hole in the lid each string comes out of with this method, you’ll need to pass each string through a different hole on the lid after threading it through the box body.
Make sure the strings run in a zigzag pattern inside the box.
A thousand-prize lottery you can make with a box and a drain cover
Introducing a senbon-kuji (string lottery) made with a suitably sized box and a drain cover! Prepare a box with one face just a bit larger than the drain cover.
Fit drain covers into the front and back of the box, then thread strings with prizes attached through them—that’s it.
The drain covers neatly gather the strings, so neither the strings nor the prizes get tangled or scattered.
Since the prizes are placed around the box, try to secure as much space as possible when using this idea.
Despite its compact appearance, you can enjoy a dynamic lottery experience that’s sure to liven things up!
