flight school and clock game
Find some cardboard or posterboard.
Cut out three holes for paper airplanes to make it through. (This may require help from an adult.)
Decorate your carnival game.
Use paints, markers, crayons, paper- whatever you'd like to decorate the game board. Write points for each of the three holes. Use any amounts you want to practice adding!
Set up your game.
If you use posterboard, you may need to find a place to hang the board (a doorway or back of a chair work).
Make a few paper airplanes so you can test out which ones make scoring points easier.
Play by taking turns trying to fly your plane through the holes and add up your points!
10 points!!
We had loads of fun creating and playing this carnival-like game at home!
Picture 1: Create 13 piles of 4 cards each and set them up to look like a clock. The thirteenth pile goes in the center. Number the times on the clock with pieces of paper to help you keep track.
Picture 2: Turn over the top card of the center pile. Slide it face up under the number's pile that it shows. We turned over a 7, so we slid it face up under the pile where a 7 is on a clock.
Picture 3: Turn over the top card of the pile you just slid a card under. We turned over a King (13). Our next move was to place it face up under the center pile and turn over the top card. Keep sliding cards face up and turning over the top cards.
Picture 4: To win the game, you must turn all 13 four-of- a-kind piles face up. You lose the game if the 4 Kings are all face up before completing the other sets.
Clock Patience, a solitaire game, requires patience and a lot of luck. We had to play TEN TIMES before we won one game, but it is exciting to see if you've dealt yourself a winning round. Grab a deck of cards, remove the Jokers and shuffle them well. Here's how to play:
Deal the cards (face down) in sets of 4 and create a clock (see the first picture). It is very helpful to number the clock when you are first playing this game. The 13th pile of cards goes in the center. For this game, Aces are 1, Jacks are 11, Queens are 12 and Kings are 13.
Turn the top card in the 13th pile face up (see the second picture). Place it (still face up) under the pile of that card's number. We turned over a 7 so we slid it face up under the "7" pile.
Then turn over the top card of the pile you just slid a card under. We turned over a King. A King represents the number 13, so we slid that card face up under the center pile (#13) and turned the top card of the 13th pile face up.
Continue sliding cards face up and turning over the top cards of the piles.
To win this game, all 13 piles must become four of a kind face up piles. You lose, however, if all 4 Kings are face up before all of the other sets are completed.
We were only able to complete 7 piles before the Kings were all face up in this round.