Home game - Score it!

I've been frequently collecting trash for unknown purposes, but I knew this embedded habit of mine will be of good use some day. One afternoon, while the kids were gleefully painting outdoor, I went through my stash for egg cartons. I had a simple game invention in mind. A funfair, game stall inspired thought.

All you need:

• Egg cartons
• 3 or more colour paint
• Brushes
• Light small ball
• Pen and papers for scores 

Our colourful tray of dips

It was easy! Since the kids had brushes and paint on hand, I borrowed manpower to paint the egg cartons. We worked with 6 different colours.

Score reference

 

Dips that were painted the least times of colour, carried the heaviest point. For the remaining, we assigned randomly. With that, we came up with a scoring system.

Game's ready! Set a considerable distance from the egg cartons and ball thrower, give each thrower 3 tries to score. The game explains itself, the highest scorer after 3 tries, wins! And trust me, I thought it was an easy game, but not. Even with 3 tries, I had my ball out of the cartons, giving me 0 score. Build more cartons if you like!  

Moral of game - I thought I could get Jazz to work on her addition, but it was too many numbers to sum up for her. In any case, I grabbed opportunity to reinforce her Chinese and drilled Jare into characters recognition. I communicated the game in Mandarin, but it was alot of effort to get Jare engaged in Chinese. And, while painting, we went through the colours equation:
Blue + Yellow = Green, Blue + Red = Purple, Yellow + Red = Orange!

A simple game, but the kids got really excited over this self made game. Jazz is so much into game invention now. How did I just realized we didn't need to invest too much in paid toys?!!!