CHOOSE 1 or BOTH: CARD DECK SIZE: 54 loteria playing cards are a little over 3 5/8 inches tall and a about 2.5 inches wide. Slip in some cultural educational fun and learn Spanish too! GAME BOARD SIZE: game boards about 8.5" x 5 3/8" INCLUDES: 10 small game boards and 54 playing cards. Almost everything you need to play! Traditionally one would use dry pinto beans or small pebbles for markers. Students loved to go find small pebbles at recess to play later, we also used ripped up paper pieces, buttons, shells and pennies.
NEW STOCK CONDITION: New and unused with plaid desgin on the back of each game boards and playing cards. Since it's plaid on the back of the playing cards, they can be used for loteria tarot readings. You can google it or here is a link to start you off. https://www.worlddivinationassociation.com/mexican-loteria
DOMESTIC SHIPPING: quote is for 1 game set of cards and game boards and the card stock is on the heavier side and USPS first class shipping with tracking and insurance. Shipping overages of $2 are refunded after your shipping label has been made. We ship out promptly every Mon, Wed and Fri, unless it's a holiday and then we ship on the next designated day. Please read our shop and shipping policies before placing an order and ask questions, so we can meet your expectations. FREE local pick up in the Los Angeles or Monterey Park area welcome. Thank you for your visit.
OTHER DETAILS PHOTO 10: I use the game boards to make boxes or little nicho ofrenda shrine alters and the cards to use as gift tags, garlands and nicho ofrenda decorations. Last photo was inspired by the last season of Penny Dreadful and is available here:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/102346504/choose-halloween-penny-dreadful-scorpion
LAST 7 PHOTOs: Simple easy cake toppers to make for all around family activity fun! Play the game and then make some cupcake toppers and cupcakes! Make DIY candle holders, favor bags, gift tags, garlands and even wedding seating arrangement decor! Enjoy!
DIY WEDDING CRAFT USES: Many Etsy buyers have shared these for their Day of the Dead or Fiesta weddings:
1. Used the game cards for name place cards and the game boards for programs. She ordered 16 loteria games.
2. Another wanted them for a ribbon decoration name place card, shown like this one here on my Hoarder Rehab blog:
http://hoarderrehab.blogspot.com/2014/07/loteria-game-diy-wedding-table-cards.html
3. Someone else took theirs to Puerta Vallarta to play buy the pool with wedding guests.
4. Cut the game board pieces and glue them on to toothpicks for cupcake toppers.
5. Punch holes in the tops of the loteria cards and make a simple garland with twine or use the game board pieces cut up and make a mini garland.
New smaller portable version of traditional loteria Mexican bingo game for Day of the Dead birthday wedding crafts. Mexican folk art craft supply loteria Mexican card bingo party game - vintage retro style - family activity game to play and then scrapbook collage mixed media art
HOW I USE THEM:
1. I've used the cards to make simple garlands
2. The game boards make really cute gift boxes.
3. I use them in mixed media art and add them to Day of the Dead nichos, like this one:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/198845442/day-of-the-dead-framed-nicho-calavera
Looking for something different to do for a party activity? or after dinner fun? introductory lesson to Spanish? scrapbooks, collage art fun, card making? Traditional mexican folk art mixed media art? Play and then make cards! What would Frida Kahlo do?
These are the smaller, but traditional version with traditional loteria game boards on one side and with other games on each tabla or playing board and
Learn Spanish with easy to match pictures or just call out the numbers to play, it's just like American Bingo, but instead of random numbers chosen from ping pong balls, it's from a deck of cards!
Each box on the playing board is around 2" by 1" and there are 16 boxes per game board, in case you want to cut them up, so that's 160 pieces just in cut up game board.
the same size, but more modern version of this game:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/167693579/new-unused-lotteria-mexicana-bingo-card
Hoarder History: This is from my recent detash of dealing with some of my hoarder issues. I seem to buy "hard to find" items in bulk because I'm so happy to finally have found them! I bought, uh, several of these to use in cards, collages and mixed media art, but ironically, have to dehoard to make room for any creative activities!
Untold Destiny: I hope these find themselves on a good game table for Halloween to Day of the Dead for some with adults and children and then later as a fun art project! Make some new memories with a modern traditional twist! Compare these newer cards with the older traditional ones, if you need a fun lesson in the classroom this Day of the Dead!
Some info from wiki on it's history and how to play:
1. Lotería is a Latin American game of chance, similar to bingo, but using images on a deck of cards instead of plain numbers on ping pong balls. Every image has a name and an assigned number, but the number is usually ignored. Each player has at least one tabla, a board with a randomly created 4 x 4 grid of pictures with their corresponding name and number. Players choose what tabla they want to play with, from a variety of previously created tablas. Each one presents a different selection of images.
2. Lotería is the Spanish word for lottery. The deck is composed of a set of 54 different images, each one in a card. To start the game, the caller (cantor, or singer) randomly selects a card from the deck and announces it to the players by its name, sometimes using a riddle or humorous patter instead of reading the card name. The players with a matching pictogram on their board mark it off with a chip or other kind of marker (many Mexican families traditionally use small rocks, crown corks or pinto beans as markers). The first player with four chips in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row, squared pattern,any other previously specified pattern, or fills the tabla first shouts "¡Lotería!" (Lottery!) or "¡Buena!" (Good!) and is the winner.
3. The origin of lottery can be traced far back in history. The game originated in Italy in the 15th century and was brought to New Spain (Mexico) in 1769. In the beginning, lotería was a hobby of the upper classes, but eventually it became a tradition at Mexican fairs.
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