Digital Soccer

Get your friends together and paint each others hands in soccer strip. To play Digital Soccer, divide into two teams and move the ball around a tabletop pitch. Use your fingers to kick the ball into the goal. Do headers by bouncing the ball off the back of your hands.

Triangular Sponge

Kitchen Cloth

Table Tennis Ball

Face Paints (red, white, black)

2 Medium Brushes

Acrylic Paint (black, white)

Step 1
Lay the kitchen cloth on your work surface. Apply a base coat of white face paint to one or both hands with a triangular sponge. Leave to dry.

Step 2
Paint the red socks and shirt with the medium brush. Paint the face, arms and knees in a skin tone color. Leave to dry for a few minutes.

Step 3
Paint a black outline around the footballer. Now you can paint in his black boots and facial features.

Step 4
Paint a table tennis ball with black acrylic paint. When the paint has dried, carefully add the white markings you find on a football. World Cup Digital Soccer, here we come!

Step 5
You are ready to play now.

To make the pitch, cover the tabletop with a newspaper or a large sheet of paper and use a felt-tip pen to mark the lines. Cut one long side end off two small boxes to make the goals. It does not matter what size the boxes are provided they are of the same size. Fix the goals at either end of the pitch using double-sided sticky tape. You are now finally ready to take off!