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Gifts for the Graduating Hobbyist

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Gifts for the Graduating Hobbyist

New graduates may find themselves with a fair bit of time on their hands, and they may be looking for things to do now that they’re going off to college or starting their adult lives. Hobbies are not only great ways to pass the time but also help you find like-minded people who could become lifelong friends. We’ve put together a list of gifts for graduates of high school or college, based around hobbies. Some of these items can be found here on Original Hobby, while others are more general hobby supplies.

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Five Board Games to Put the Spring in Your Step

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Five Board Games to Put the Spring in Your Step

Spring is often traditionally thought of as the season of growth, renewal, and rejuvenation, the time of year when increased daylight encourages plant life to “spring forth.” As a follow-up to our previous post on winter-themed games, we’ve listed five spring-themed board games to brighten your tables, once again in order of overall ranking on BoardGameGeek.

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Five Board Games That Foster Team Building

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Five Board Games That Foster Team Building

Board games are inherently social experiences, so they have the potential to be the perfect icebreakers at corporate social events. However, some board games can ruin relationships rather than improve them, so you need to be careful which ones you break out for team-building exercises.

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Break Ice and Build Teams with 3D Wooden Puzzles

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Break Ice and Build Teams with 3D Wooden Puzzles

Original Hobby offers a variety of 3D wooden puzzles that you can assemble and paint yourself, with options ranging from vehicles like airplanes and boats to solar-powered windmills and watermills. It’s easy to see the educational benefits of puzzles like these for children—they encourage STEAM thinking and imaginative play—but there are benefits for adults, as well... For this blog post, we’re going to think about a few team-building activities and how they might be altered or improved with wooden puzzles.

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Crokinole for the Shuffleboard Player

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Crokinole for the Shuffleboard Player

In previous posts, we’ve discussed how a pool player and an aspiring curler might enjoy the 19th-century Canadian table sport crokinole. As part of this series where we try to convince everyone to play crokinole, we thought we’d aim for shuffleboard players next.

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