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If you’ve ever tried to play a card game with a little one, you already know where this is going…their little hands are just too small to hold and manage the cards.  My daughter has been on a big card game kick lately, and has grown increasingly frustrated that she has to lay the cards down so that everyone else can see them in order to play.  I pondered a few ways of making a card holder for her, and finally decided that simple was best.  This project went from mulling-it-over to on-the-floor knee-deep-in-Uno in less than an hour, and cost me nothing.

I started by grabbing a piece of a 2 X 4 from my garage.  This one is about 14 inches or so, but you could make it longer or shorter.  I set the blade on my table saw to cut about one inch deep and about one inch in from the side of the wood and ran the 2 X 4 all the way across.  Then, I changed the depth to about half an inch, flipped the board around and did the same thing on the other side, creating two different troughs along the top of the board.

If you don’t have a table saw, ask around your neighborhood.  Surely someone that you know does, and this is such a simple project that only the hardest of hearts would balk at being asked.

I sanded it very well, slightly rounding the hard edges as I went (NO SPLINTERS!) then covered the whole thing with a coat of craft paint.  You could be done at this point, but I wanted my daughter to be able to know which was was the front (you want the deeper trough to be in the front, so the back row of cards stands up taller) so I stenciled the word “cards” on the front.  Major craft-cheating here; I didn’t even paint it.  I just used a black Sharpie.  I ran the sander all over the finished product to rough it up, because that’s the way I roll, then sprayed the whole thing with a spray sealer.  Easy Peasy!  Now if you’ll excuse my, I must get back to getting whooped at card games…

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