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Flour. Tower. How Do You Make a Game with Two Pennies and a Cup of Flour

Once again, a big thank you to the 4-H club of Prince William County, Virginia, who demonstrated this game at this summer’s 2011 County Fair.

Supplies:

2 pennies (any coin will do)

1 cup of flour

2 spoons

2 small paper cups

Cookie sheet, table top or counter

Instructions:

1. Fill a small paper cup with flour.

2. Turn the paper cup over gently onto the cookie sheet.

3. Lift the paper cup off the flour, gently, leaving a tower behind.

4. Put a penny on top of the tower of flour.

5. With a spoon, carve away as much of the flour as you can without collapsing the tower.

6. Thinnest tower wins.

7. This game can be played by one or any number of people.

A Game of Skill and Imagination

This game is endlessly fascinating because the tower of flour stays in place perfectly until one carving too many makes it collapse.

You can play against yourself or compete with any number of people.

You can imagine the wind and sands out West carving out the rocks, leaving spindly towers just like the ones you are making.

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To you and making memories with your grandchildren.

Carol Covin, “Granny-Guru”

Author, “Who Gets to Name Grandma? The Wisdom of Mothers and Grandchildren”

http://newgrandmas.com

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