Just want to have a quiet night and watch the kids use their brains instead. How about a building contest!
This one is a good one to use once in a while. You need to purchase some boxes of toothpicks, colors can be fun, and mini marshmallows.
Yes marshmallows. I would suggest buying enough to also have some to eat. The kids usually want to eat as much of the marshmallows as they use to build. They will eat the ones they are using whether they are clean or not so provide them some to eat. Also you might want to tell them to be careful that they don't prick themselves with the toothpicks.
The goal here is to build the tallest standing structure. If it can't stand it does not qualify. You should give it a time limit. How much time depends on how long game time is. You need time to measure and time for the kids to admire each others work.
All that they need to do is to stick the toothpicks into the marshmallows and build. It sounds easy but this game will show you the future building engineers.
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I'm planning on trying this one. I was thinking about using pretzel sticks in olace of toothpicks. Also,how big or small do you suggest for team size.
I've run this between 2 and 4 kids on a team. It all depends on the size of your group. Smaller is always better it allows better-building collaboration. If you run it with too many kids on a team some will end up just sitting there and then you have to deal with the idle kids being bored.
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