Carnival Games with Graysen

Graysen treated us all to a fun afternoon of games (complete with prizes) all thought up and set up by himself. Our first challenge was to make an air pump move a whiffle ball across a track of construction paper labeled with various point values, depending on how far the ball rolled. We all blasted it off the paper (his own trial run had been hands and knees, not leg and foot)--and for some of us that was all the points we got for the rest of the day ;)



His ring toss was extra tricky, because we were ringing empty water bottles--unweighted--with a pom-pom making loop that outweighed all the bottles put together. We each got a bunch of tries, but everyone scored a big old zero on the cardboard clipboard scorecard G$ was carrying around :)



Next was darts--I think he said these were for a handheld bow of some sort, so they were super heavily weighted and all of mine hit flat against the box :) Several others' throws, though, made some dents in the paper and were awarded whatever coordinating points were available according to the target.



Next up was the ball toss to knock down the cans! Graysen had a cool arch structure built over the top, but that not only increased the difficulty level, but it knocked the whole contraption over backwards when a ball came into contact with it. The base is a former robot head Graysen made for himself--I dropped a ball straight into the robot's mouth. I figured that would be bonus points galore!!!! But I got nothin' :)



The Nerf gun shootout was next. Graysen had a 10 point cardboard spinner attached to the water bottles mounted to the top with his endless supply of clear mover's tape. From the marked distance, the game was really challenging. Buck later tried it a little bit closer and the Nerf spun that dial just as Graysen had imagined it would. The wind was also pesky that day, trying to knock over our cool game stations. Good thing tape can re-stick!




Here's Gabby trying out the water gun shooting game. As long as the bullseye target (which Graysen cleverly waterproofed with more of his handy clear tape) had water spots on it, you got points for every color category! Whew, did I need those points!



In the end, Buck was the winner of eight king sized peanut butter cups . . . or maybe they were regular sized, but came in a king sized package? Either way, he shared them around, he and G$ each got two, and it was a super fun way to spend some time outside with our creative games director :)