How to Create Your Own Poker Chips

Poker is a popular game that brings many people together for a fun game night. Creating your own poker chips can make the game even more fun! So grab some food, friends, and get creative in making your own poker chips.

Things You'll Need

• Bottle caps
• Round candy (skittles, m&ms,etc)
• Coins(pennies, dimes, quarters)
• Cookies
• Anything round
• Clay
• Newspaper
• Rolling pin
• Drinking glass

Instructions

1. Create your own poker chips using just about anything that you have a large quantity of, although It is preferable to use round objects. You can also create your own poker chips according to the crowd and theme of the poker night. For instance, if the poker players love candy or sweets, use skittles, m&ms, or cookies as poker chips for the night. Or if someone has a bottle cap collection, you can use those as poker chips.As part of the poker game, especially if players are placing bets, coins can also be used as the poker chips. Players can use pennies, nickels, dimes, etc as the chips for the game, and each value of the coin can be used as the value in the game.

2. Fashion your own poker chips out of clay. You can purchase clay at your local crafts store. Lay out some newspaper or wax paper to protect the surface of your workspace. Lay the clay flat on the newspaper and knead it to soften it.

3. Roll the clayt out with a rolling pin to about 1 inch in thickness. Take a drinking glass and turn it upside down so that the opening of the glass is facing the clay. Press the opening of the glass into the clay, using the glass as a "cookie cutter." This will create a round shape from the clay, making your poker chips. Instead of a drinking glass, you can use something else round to cut and create a circle shape out of the clay to make your poker chips.

4. Place some aluminum foil on a cookie sheet, turn the oven to 350 degrees and bake the clay for about 20 minutes, or until the clay hardens. Once the clay has adequately hardened, take the poker chips out of the oven and allow them to cool.Really, anything can be used as poker chips. You just have to use be creative. So, grab your buddies and use your imagination to create some innovative and fun poker chips!