Wooden Angry Birds Game Set

Hello, Today I'm going to show you How I went about making a Wooden Angry Birds Game for my family. With summer here it seemed like a no brainer to make this game for personal indoor/outdoor use.

Materials for Game Pieces:

What ever type of wood you would like to use or have handy (I just used various pieces of scrap wood)
Safety Glasses
Some way to sand the pieces (ie. Belt or Mouse Sander)
Jig Saw
Pencil
Acrylic Paints and Various Brushes (Thin and Foam)
Wood Stain (Not Required but will give the board a good look)
Wood Burning tool (Old Soldering Iron does the trick too)

Materials for Catapult:

Ping Pong balls
1 Skateboard Wheel
2 bearings for the wheel
1" dia. dowel
Scrap Piece of wood approx 6 - 8 inches by 4 inches and 1/2" thick
2 rubberbands
1 small wall hook
threaded rod or 1/4" dowel
something to use as the holder for the Ping Pong balls

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Step 1: Drawing the Pieces

First thing to do is Choose how many and what pigs you will be making. I decided on 5 Regular Pigs, 3 Soldier Pigs, 1 Old Man Pig and finally 1 King Pig.

Once you know what you want simply (or not so simply for some) sketch out the outlike of one of each type of pig on your wood. When done sketching use your Jig Saw to CAREFULLY cut them out and don't forget eye protection. Now that you have each type of pig cut out simply trace how ever many of each typ you want on more wood and cut them out too. This can be a very hard thing to accomplish with a Jig Saw because of the small pieces so please BE CAREFUL. A Scroll saw would work wonders here but unfortunately I do not have one.

You should have something resembling the pictures.