A few weeks ago, Seahawk decided that he wanted to try his hand at building a house of cards. We don’t have carpet in our home, so he quickly found out that this made his goal quite a challenge. But, being the good problem solver that he is, he simply got a washrag out and used that as a “carpet” for his tower, which gave the cards much more stability.
Seeing Seahawk’s success inspired Munchkin to join in the fun, and for several days, our living room had two houses of cards going at any given moment. And with my kids, working on the task isn’t necessarily what they enjoy. They like the finished product. So once they’d completed their houses, we were walking gently in the living room so as not to accidentally knock over the towers before they were ready to put them away. This lasted about a day and a half.
And when they were ready to tear them down, what did we discover? That those cards were pretty darn stable! Even after a lot of jumping right next to the towers, only a few cards had fallen. Kids and Dad had to physically take the cards down by hand. They weren’t going to fall over mistakenly.
Have you ever built a house of cards?
Blessings,
Impressive! I’ve got a kid next to me right now wanting to figure that out now too. How do you like not having carpet? (So no carpet anywhere?)
Hi Sanz! I really need to check my settings so I get emails for comments :p.
Not having carpet has good points and bad. For example, sweeping is quieter than vacuuming. That’s a good one. The biggest bad one is that it’s hard to keep warm in the winter. We each have a pair of fuzzy slippers. The only carpet in the house is on the stairs. I would prefer carpet in the bedrooms, just for the warmth factor, but we’ve gotten used to it over the past 2 years (that’s how long we’ve lived in this house).
Wouldn’t you know it. Right after this my kids set to making a village out of cards! 🙂
I used to love to do this as a kid! I am going to have to pull out the cards for my crew to give it a try. Thanks for the idea!
(and, thanks for stopping by my blog earlier!)
It’s definitely a good way to build patience! Hopefully your kids enjoy it 🙂