Settlers of Catan Support Board (For Under $10)

I will show you a cheap and easy way to create a playing surface to hold your tiles together and allow you to easily move your game. 

Step 1 Gather Your Supplies

**MAKE SURE YOU GET THE RIGHT SIZE FOAM BOARD!**

I first looked at Wal-mart and the foam board they had was too small.  I found the appropriate size at Meijer.

What you will need:

1. Pencil
2. Foam Board x 2  (22in. x 28in)
3. Settlers of Catan Tiles
4. X-acto Knife (Cutting Matt)
5. Ruler
6. Glue or other type of adhesive
7. Soda cans or something to use as weights

Comments

[infestacool]

Thanks, I followed your example and made a very similar board for my catan set. I made it for the 5-6 player expantsion.

My set was the newer one mentioned above but I don't like the solid border as the pieces still move. This is great and solid. The expansion came with port tiles so it works well.

I'm considering cutting it and adding small hinges so it can fold like similar boards but I haven't made the jump yet.

[jpople]

This is fantastic, but seems a bit unweildy for storage. Would there be a way to make one that could be rolled up or something?

[Candor]

simple, cheap and brilliant. Three things that make me say 5/5

[lemonie]

It's nice but I see a lot of wastage, you could have done this with one sheet I think?

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[thirdspaced]

You could get by with just one sheet if you only wanted a border.  Using two sheets is nice, because it allows you to lift and move the game if necessary.   

[lemonie]

I meant that the spare card from the big hexagon would provide enough material to make the border. You'd have to assemble the border from 6 separate pieces, but you'd only use one sheet of card.

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[jhines0042]

The new version of Settlers of Catan comes with a solid border that you could use for this same purpose, but for those who have the older version of the game this is a great hack!

Good work!

[me]

 that is a really neat solution, I really hate it when all the tiles start shifting when there is something placed at the board