Category: Cool Stuff (Page 3 of 9)

An 88-year-old woman, who walks laps everyday in memory of her husband, with whom she used to hike, has just reached the 10,000 miles mark. She’s been doing this for 11 years. If my math is correct that would be about 2.5 miles a day – quite an achievement for someone her age! Indeed, quite an achievement for anyone.

Tonight we finally played Mika’s Game, a game we found in the book Crafty Girl: Fun and Games: Things to Make and Do. We made the board and cards a couple of months ago, but we never got around to play it until now. Too bad, because it’s the funnest and funniest game we’ve played in a long time.
To make the game first make a playing board. Get a board-size piece of cardboard and paste same-sized poster paper on top of it. Then cut squares (about 2″ x 2″) in at least 3 different color paper. Paste the squares onto the cardboard, one after another (with a start and end) in whichever fun shape you can muster. You can decorate the squares with stickers, glitter, etc.
We haven’t done that for this game, but I’ll try to convince Mika to make a new playing board.
Now, for the cards. Make a set of cards (let’s say 50) with funny things to do (continue reading to see the cards I made). Print them on the same color paper as one set of squares. If you want, make another set of cards on the color of another set of squares and print questions in them. The questions will depend on your game-players. My youngest is 4yo, so I made them all about things around the house (see examples below).
And that’s it. The silliest you make the actions and questions the most fun the game will be. My kids loved it.

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Here, for the first time, are the photographs that prove that Mike Katz is not a mild peacenik. In these never-before released pictures, you can see him expertly shooting an AK47 and a tripod-mounted machine gun, while training with some undetermined military group, perhaps in Southeast Asia.