Fingers And Thumb
You Will Need:
• Some sheets of coloured card
• A shoebox
• Some wooden kebab skewers
• Some beads
• Some cotton reels
• A crisp tube container
• Glue down four rows of coloured squares onto either a cardboard box card or polystyrene base.
• Lie them out so that the diagonal is as big as your outstretched hand.
• For the decision maker, simply paint a shoebox whichever way you like.
• Carefully cut some wooden kebab skewers down so that they're slightly wider than the shoebox.
• Onto each skewer thread a bead, a cotton reel and a crisp pot that you can make a hole through.
• On the other side of the crisp pot, thread another cotton reel and a bead, to keep it in place.
• Now make four slits down the shoebox, about as deep as the crisp pots and far enough away from each other so that the pots will be able to spin.
• Slot the rollers in, with the beads sticking out.
• Next, for the diagrams on the rollers. One needs to indicate a finger or thumb, and the other a coloured square.
• Draw them on cardboard first and stick them round the crisp pots.
• Don't forget to cut two windows into the lid of your shoebox with an arrow on each so that you'll be able to spin and see what decision has been made by the spinner.
• To play the game, take it in turns to spin!
• If, for example, the roller lands on yellow and the other lands on the thumb picture, you must put your thumb on a yellow square!
• Keep going - it gets much trickier as the game progresses...
