Crazy Eights
Crazy Eights is very similar to the card game Uno, except you play Crazy Eights with a regular deck of cards. The goal of the game is to be the first player to get rid of all of your cards. The game can be played with 2-7 people. To start the game, remove the Jokers and shuffle the deck.
If playing with two people, the dealer deals each person 7 cards one at a time, face down and puts the deck face down between you (see first picture).
If playing with 3-7 people, the dealer deals each person 5 cards one at a time face down and puts the deck face down in the middle of the table.
Players arrange their cards by organizing them in a way that helps them. We like to play by putting all of our cards of a suit together (see second picture). Some people like to put all of their cards of the same number together.
The dealer turns over the first card of the face down deck and places it next to the deck to start the game. If the first card turned over is an eight, it is buried face down within the deck and the next card is turned over.
Play begins with the person sitting to the left of the dealer. The player must put down a card that matches either the number or the suit (see third picture). If a player has an eight, that is a wild card and they can change the suit.
Play continues as each person takes turns putting down a suit or number match. If you cannot make a match, you must draw from the deck until you can. Remember, if you draw an eight, you can change the suit to whichever one benefits your hand (our opponent placed down an eight, and changed the suite to diamonds so the next player had to put down a diamond).
Play ends when one player runs out of cards
Paper Torn Geometry is a fun way to think about shapes. How the shapes turn out provides for some interesting art. No matter how hard you try to tear a shape, it doesn't come out quite the way you expect it to. What we like about this activity is that you are constantly thinking about what the shapes look like and how many sides you are trying to tear.
To start, you need colored paper and glue. Scissors are optional to create strips for tearing.
We found it helpful to cut some various sized strips to get us started.
Think of a shape. Using just your hands and fingers, try to tear it out. We tried to create circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons and trapezoids.
Now for the artistic part, arrange your art any way you wish. You can try to create a scene or a collage. We chose to create a collage.