A touchdown is score by getting the football to sit partially on and partially off the end of the table. Often also called a cootie catcher, this is a folded paper game with handwritten fortunes inside.
Find out how to make a fortune teller online from a how-to guide like this one. This is simple and fun. Wad a piece of paper into a tight ball and aim for your trashcan or other nearby target. Toss the paper. If it goes in, great! Pull it out and try again.
Of course the real fun is in running around cheering after you score. You may want to begin with a simple version, such as this one. Still instructions for more complex and higher jumping origami frogs can also be found online. Also called an origami balloon, you can fold this ball use it for a variety games, such as Bubbles , Ball Toss Race or a simple target toss game.
You can find several how-to guides for folding a paper ball, such as this one , online. There are several ways to fold a paper airplane. You can start with one then experiment alternatives to see how they affect their flight.
Fold a piece of paper in half the long way then open it back up. This will create a checkerboard. When you have woven all 8 strips through the paper, make the ends of the strips even and straight. Carefully turn the checkerboard over. Place transparent tape along the left and right sides of the checkerboard to hold the strips in place.
Turn the checkerboard right side up, and glue it to the cardboard. Cut small circles out of cardboard, stack them 3 or 4 pieces high, and glue them together. Create enough for 2 sets of checkers. Make each set a different color. Now play checkers! Ready for a brain twister? Learn how to make a tangram, a complicated puzzle that takes many shapes, on the next page. Learn how to Make a Tangram, a seven piece puzzle.
A tangram is like a recyclable puzzle, because you can make so many shapes and patterns with it. The Chinese call this puzzle ch'i ch'iao t'u, which means "ingenious puzzle with seven pieces. Rearranged in different ways, these 7 pieces can make as many as 1, different designs. Look closely at the pattern in the picture below. Use your ruler and pencil to draw an 8 x 8-inch square on the cardboard. If you'd like, you can decorate your tangram -- color each piece a different color, create different patterns on each one, or whatever you like.
NOTE: It is easier to color or decorate your tangram puzzle before you cut it apart. Try to re-create the design shown here. Then invent new shapes of your own.
Trace the outside shape of your new designs, and challenge friends and family members to arrange the tangram pieces to match your designs. Think a penny isn't worth much? It can buy you hours of fun when you turn it into a Penny Spinner. Find out how to make this great paper game on the next page.
Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, was a great fan of tangrams. He is said to have had a Chinese book made of tissue paper that had tangram designs in it! The Penny Spinner will make you realize that even though one cent doesn't buy a lot, a penny can give you hours of fun. Combine it with a paper plate to transform it into a great toy. Use scissors to cut the rim off the plate. Keep the edges smooth. To find the center of the plate, trace around the plate on a piece of paper.
Cut this circle out, and fold it in half. Place the half-circle on the back of the plate, and draw a pencil line on the plate, using the folded edge as a guide. Fold the paper in half again, making a quarter-circle. Align this with the line on the plate and the edge of the plate, and make a mark at the place where the tip of the quarter-circle meets the line.
On the front of the plate, use the marker to draw a thick spiral line that begins in the center. Scatter star stickers around the spiral. To play: Place the spinner on a hard, flat surface, and use the top half of the penny to give it a spin. Pom-Pom Basketball is a game of skill that's so well crafted your friends will think you bought it in a store. Find out how to make this paper game on the next page.
Pom-Pom Basketball will turn you into a sports fanatic if you aren't one already. Improve your aim and skill with this super fun basketball game. Open the tops of 2 cereal boxes, lifting the flaps up. Wrap the bottom and sides of both boxes with gift wrap, leaving the flaps open and unwrapped. Trace the top of a 2-ounce cup 4 times on the front side of one of the boxes. Turn the cup over, and trace the bottom inside each of the larger circles.
Ask a grown-up to cut out each of the inner circles using a craft knife. Use scissors to cut tabs from the inside to the outer circle all the way around. Bend these tabs down into the box, and insert a cup into each hole. Assign each cup a point value by writing a number on a scrap of paper and gluing it beside each cup.
Cut a piece of white paper to fit around the fifth cup, wrap it around, and glue in place. Use red marker to draw diagonal lines that look like netting. Ask a grown-up to help you poke a hole at each mark. Trace and cut out the backboard pattern from white paper. Outline it in blue, and draw a red square in the center. Glue the backboard onto the front of the second box, near the top with the arch toward the top.
Insert a twist tie through the holes in the cup and through the holes in the backboard. Reach into the open end of the box, and twist the tie to secure the cup. Mark a point value just below the cup. Thread the pom onto a inch length of heavy thread, and knot it in place at the end. Tie the other end of the thread to the head of a plastic spoon.
Ask a grown-up to cut a 1-inch slit in the box with the cups see photo for placement , cutting through both flaps in the same place. Insert the plastic spoon handle into this slit, and use duct tape to secure the handle of the spoon to the inside of the box.
Smooth out each crease carefully, pressing them firmly. Each of the outside corners should be square and even, not lopsided. Fold the paper again in half, then in quarters, pressing the creases firmly. Then unfold the last four corners. Hold the paper so that the single layer folds are up and write a number on each. Unfold the flaps again so now the paper is back to Step 3.
Now write a number on each of the eight outer-corner halves. Turn the paper over and write a little action on the back of each of the eight outer halves you just numbered. They can be anything, like "smile" to "you are cute" to "give me a kiss" -- whatever the occasion calls for. Now fold the whole thing back so that you are back at Step 4 before the writing. Slide four fingers under the loose flaps and bring the corners in to the center. You should be able to press two fingers together while pulling two away, and so on.
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