 What's up guys? My name is Dan Roto and I run a DIY YouTube channel called The Danocracy. Today I'm hanging out at the Art Resin Headquarters and I'm going to show you how to make a board game table using your favorite board game and some resin. Now I recently just got a niece, her name is Brooklyn, she's the sweetest little thing. I grew up playing Candyland so I figured I want to make her a board game table with Candyland. So for this all you're going to need is your favorite board game and today's Candyland for me. And a table, so I went to IKEA, picked up a side table but you can totally do this with a TV tray, an old table you might have that you want to bring life back into. But we're going to add a little twist to this because this is Candyland. I'm actually going to incorporate real candy into our board game table just to give it a little more pop so Brooklyn wants to play Candyland when I come visit her. So let's head to the candy store, pick up some of our favorite candies and we'll get started. Let's go. Alright, step one is we have to get candy for a candy table. Now I'm heading to a candy store right now, luckily I already know what I want to get. I'm going to do sprinkles on the top of the table and I'm thinking I might do like a licorice or ribbon candy like around the outside. Step one, let's get the candy. This is like the definition of Candyland right here. I like the round ones, honestly more than that. It's better to get too much. They were there on the floor when we got here. Maybe two more scoops. The problem is they don't have the black liquid we're looking for. Off to the next store. And yeah, we now have all the ingredients for our candy table. Let's go make a Candyland table, baby. And we're back from our candy haul. This is what we got. Well, this stuff is for me. Thank you Art Resin for the corporate card. Alright, we got our candy. Let me go get the other materials and we'll get started on our board game table made of real candy. Now that we've got all our materials, it's time to get started. For step one, you want to make sure that your tabletop is level before we work with any type of resin. For this, I've actually rested the tabletop on these little stilts that you can get actually from Art Resin in their accessory pack. And that's going to hold our tabletop off of the bottom so when we pour resin, it actually can drip off the sides. Once that's off the tabletop, we're actually going to take a bubble level and make sure that this is completely flat. And just like that, it is level. Now because I know I'm going to be doing a top coat of resin, a really great trick is to put a layer of painter's tape around the outside. Because when I do my top layer of resin, it's actually going to spill over the sides and as it starts to cure, you'll have these like ridges. Whereas if you have tape down, you can simply just pull off the tape, saving you the post-processing work. You'll notice when you do the top coat of resin that a lot of drips will form here. Now this isn't a necessary thing, it's just a really great trick to save you from having to sand once it's actually cured. Next is time for step two and this is a little trick that I like to use whenever I'm working with candy, sprinkles in particular. Grab yourself some multi-purpose spray adhesive because what you can do is you can spray a quick layer down. You can actually stick the board game down so it's held on to the tabletop. But it'll also hold your sprinkles in place and it won't have them move. What a lot of people do is they'll actually put resin down first and then sprinkles the sprinkles on top. The problem with that is sometimes the resin needs to settle and it'll actually move your sprinkles into places that you may not want it. So spray adhesive is key. Okay, now it's time to spray. Just a thin layer over the entire thing. Well you just sprayed it and now you can place your board where you want it to go. Well that's really sticky. Now that the board is down, we can now move over to our sprinkles and just grab a few in your hand and then just slowly just drop them on like that. Now a lot of it will fall off which is fine, but the base coat is there. When we put the resin down, we can actually put some sprinkles in at that point too. This looks so good. Two good sprinkles. The board is down, the sprinkles are down. I'm now just going to let it sit for about 10 minutes so the spray adhesive actually has time to grip onto the sprinkle and the table. Now that the table top has had time to settle, it's time to actually get rid of any extra sprinkles. And this is fun, check this out. Oh it actually worked great! Look at that! Yes! Yes! Wow the glue actually held it really well. Wow this looks so good. Alright now it's time to actually add our black licorice border. So for that we're just going to use the spray adhesive as well. Let that sit for a little bit. Well that's drying and getting it a little bit more tacky. We're going to get out our licorice. Now the great thing about licorice is that one side is actually flat so it's going to stick pretty flush to the side of our board. So let's go ahead and line one up. Right up to the edge. Alright and just like that the licorice is done. Ah it looks so good! So good! Okay so next up we're actually going to mix our resin for the top coat of our board game table. So it's important you put on some gloves for this. Now if you guys haven't used our resin and it's your first time, the good thing about this is that it's measured by volume and not weight. So it's a very simple one-to-one mixture. Whatever I put here of the hardener or part A, you do the exact same amount as part B or the resin. Now anytime I pour resin I always use the art resin calculator which is on their website. We have a 22 by 18 board so you just plug that in and this calculator will actually tell you how much resin you need so you're not over pouring and wasting resin. Alright now it's time to mix. When mixing resin don't do it too too fast you're going to introduce air bubbles and make sure you stir for a minimum of two minutes. Three minutes. And make sure you stir for a minimum of three minutes. You got to make sure it's fully incorporated into each other. Scrape the sides. Resin's been fully mixed. We also have a torch on standby because once we pour this to pop the air bubbles right away it's good to have a torch, barbecue light or anything like that. And the idea here is we're just going to pour it right in the center and since this is level it's going to self level itself out coating the entire thing. Let's do it. So I like to pour it a few inches from the board. I'm going to pour it right in the center. And you'll see it starts to fan out. But you can also see all the bubbles that have been introduced from the mixing. Those will all be gone just when we hit it with the torch. Now since it's not a perfect square the resin's actually going to the side first before it hits the top and bottom. So you can use a spreader just like this and just help the resin get to the top before their corners. While the resin is still fanning out we're actually going to hit it with the torch really quick. That's going to pop any of the surface level bubbles. And whenever you're going over the sprinkles you got to move quick because you don't want to melt them because essentially they're just like sugar balls so don't hover in one spot for too long. That's looking really crystal clear. Dang! The resin's fanned out beautifully. We've popped all the bubbles but it has carried some of the sprinkles out to over top of the black licorice which is what we don't want. So I'm going in with a little brush and I'm actually just sort of brushing the sprinkles back onto the board or off the board if it's giving me problems. Using the brush you want to make sure you get any of these drips so your licorice is fully coated and encased in resin. So before I leave this to settle overnight, I'm going to put a box over top to prevent any dust or floaties from getting in our resin. And yeah, we'll come back tomorrow morning and this should be fully cured. And then we'll assemble the table. Alright, see you guys in the morning. Day two! I am back at the Art Resin headquarters. This was here when I got here. It's supposed to be like a surprise to see the final piece. I'm really excited. It went pretty smooth yesterday to be honest, which is great. It's a big reveal. Three, two, one. Okay! That is clean. Dang, that is nice. I think I'm going to assemble this and see how it looks. But this is great. A Candy Land Candy Board. We've got sprinkles and licorice outlining it. Wow, not even a bubble. Not one bubble. Okay, let's go assemble this. Ooh, actually I almost forgot. The tape that I put on the back to prevent the drips from staying, we're going to peel that off. And this is where you're actually going to see the effect of this. Now, something to remember when you're doing this trick is you have to remove the tape from the 12 to 24 hour mark. That's when the resin is still sort of gummy and not fully, fully cured. If you leave it for anything longer than 24 hours, the resin might be too hard and then the tape will actually be stuck underneath. Look at this. Boom, boom. The drips just fall right off. Okay, drips are gone. Now it's time to build our table. Alright, I've got the rest of my table here. I've got my pink drill. We're going to start assembling. And hopefully it's not that... I mean, there's a lot of screws, like an odd amount of screws. Something this big, but let's hope we don't get lost. Alright, let's do this. What's freaking me out is we've got one wooden dowel left. So I'm just hoping that's an extra and not just... I pick it up and it just falls. Alright, the big reveal. Ooh, baby! We got a nice Candyland board game table now. And just like that, we have made a Candyland table. The best part is that this board game won't get that wear and tear that normal board games get, because it's protected under resin. And what's also even better is if, I don't know, kids drop the pieces on here or it scratches over time, just pour another layer of resin. It's brand new again. One, two, three, four. Oh, we're going to Nana's nut house. Now, guys, please go ahead and try this at home. You don't have to do this with Candyland. You can do it with Monopoly and maybe make it out of money. Or you can do it with Clue and maybe toss in some, I don't know, question marks all around the board. This is totally a creative project and I would love to see what you guys create. Just be aware that some board games do need a sealant on top. If it's very paper-based or not very solid, the resin might seep in and change the color. So look into that before you actually pour the resin on top. Have fun, create, be sure to tag Art Resin, tag me, Danocracy, and any of your pieces. I'd love to see them. And yeah, maybe I'll see you at the Foster Palace. I'm just kidding. This is getting old, but this is it.