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How to Make Your Own Geoboard

by Jean Van't Hul
July 13, 2024
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Here’s a simple DIY geoboard that you can make at home and use to create shapes, pictures, and abstract art.

Updated August 2024

Have your kids used geoboards before? Maybe during math time at school? Geoboards are typically flat boards with a grid of pegs on them; you can stretch rubber bands on the pegs to form shapes, angles, and patterns.

But geoboards aren’t just for math class! They can be used to create artistic shapes and designs, and even galaxies! The kids like geoboards because they are fun, the options are endless, and creating with them is a challenge.

But you don’t have to go buy a set of classroom geoboards to use them at home! Here’s a simple way to make your own.

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Photo by Jean Van’t Hul

How to Make Your Own Geoboard

MATERIALS

*If you use foam core, you’ll want to use a double layer or set it on top of a rug or piece of cardboard as you work because the pushpins will likely poke all the way through.

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Gather your materials

    Set your board on a flat working surface, pour your pushpins into a small bowl to keep them from rolling away, and get out a handful of rubber bands.
    If you’d like, you can also cover your board with a piece of black paper, like we did.

  2. Push your pins in

    Press your pushpins all over the corkboard or foam core.

  3. Add rubber bands

    Connect two or more pushpins with rubber bands to create lines and shapes.

    stretching rubber bands on geoboard

  4. Keep going!

    You can continue to add pushpins and rubber bands to creating any design you like, including pictures or words.

homemade geoboard
Photo by Jean Van’t Hul

How easy is that?! You can leave your geoboard as is, or take everything off to start fresh the next time you make geoboard art.

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