Homemade dice cup in leather including combined lid and dice tray | DIY guide

Make your own leather dice cup/lid for your board game

This DIY guide shows you how to make your own personalized leather dice cup with lid. The lid can also be used as a dice tray. The guide can be followed by children in grades 6-8 or can be just as interesting for adults. This project is a fun and exciting way for children to develop their craftsmanship skills by creating a personal gaming gadget. The dice cup can be used for board games or as a unique storage solution for dice with the many different edges often used in strategy and role-playing games. But the dice cup can also be used for gift exchanges during Christmas, for Yatzy, or many other dice games.

The project is suitable for children aged 12-15 and designed to be easy to understand and follow, as each step is shown with a picture, explaining how to cut the leather, treat the leather, mark the holes with the correct leather tools, and how to sew it all together to create a finished dice cup with a lid/dice tray.

By making their own leather dice cup with a lid, children will have a unique gadget that they can use for board games and other fun activities. This will give them a sense of pride and satisfaction as they have created something with their own hands. And you will also think that it's cool if you make the dice cup yourself.

So let's get started with this fun and creative DIY guide, where you or your children will learn how to sew your own leather dice cup with lid and create a personal gaming gadget that you can play with for hours in your spare time!

Techniques and Skills:

• Working with leather
• Sewing in leather
• Working with the cone stub shape
• Using leather hardener
• Using an edge creaser
• Optional edge polisher

Materials you will need to make a dice cup:

• Leather 2.5 mm
• Waxed linen thread, white 0.9 mm
• Leather hardener
• Painter's tape

Tools to use:

• Hobby knife / leather scissors
• Grease pen
• Awl
• Cork block / cork pad
• 2 needles
• Edge creaser
• Wool brush
• Edge polisher
• Optional cutting mat when using a hobby knife
• Disposable gloves