How to Make a DIY Tic Tac Toe Board

Andy’s mom was in town for a week, and we did lots of fun things including hiking on the greenbelt. If you follow me on instagram, you might remember this picture. The greenbelt was dry in this particular spot, so I took the opportunity to rock hunt. The rocks were all the same color and round and flat. They were perfect for a DIY tic tac toe board set I’d been wanting to make!

You only need 10 rocks, I’ve got some fun plans for the others!

DIY Tic tac toe materials

• 10 flat rocks
• decoupage paper cutouts (paper napkins work great!)
• Mod Podge
• paint brush
• old cutting board paint
• painters tape
• sand paper

How to make a DIY outdoor tic toe set

Step 1- Gather river rocks

First, gather 10 rocks in total. It’s best if the rocks are flat and round, but any rocks will work. You need 5 of one image and 5 of another. Fair to note, you can absolutely opt to not use rocks and use anything for game pieces. Consider letting the kids paint rocks or skip rocks all together and use toy cars vs. Nerf bullets or pennies vs. nickels or red leaves vs. green leaves. Anything works!

Step 2- Decoupage

This is really easy to do, punch out the Martha Stewart cutouts and apply Mod Modge or decoupage to the rock and the back of the cut out. Brush it on, and make sure to brush out all of the air bubbles.

Here are the 2 cut outs I decided to use:

Step 3- Prepare cutting board

Next, prepare the cutting board. I found this old cutting board at a thrift store for $2. I used my handy Dremel to sand her down. Sandpaper works great too.

I whitewashed the top of the board. White wash is fancy for watered down white paint, ha!

Step 4- Measure

Then, I measured out my tic tac toe lines and taped them off with painters tape.

Step 5- Seal the board

Finally, use a generous amount of Mod Podge to cover the wooden tic tac tow board and let it dry. Now, it’s time to enjoy the simple game.

Set her on your outside table, and watch the happy tic tac toe players come along!

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Have you ever made a tic toe set? I’d love to hear…