birds of a feather have birthdays

Apparently, I didn't take any pictures of the journal I made for Josie. So, I have drawn you a picture in paint, so that, just in case you didn't see it, you can know what it looks like.

I think I should make more. Don't you?


Also, this is what I made for Kimberly for her birthday.

I stole the idea from somewhere and tweaked it, but I can't find the original. So, I send the credit out into the void! Thank you, Void!

thirtieth bird

Make a path and challenge someone to follow it.


Ok, so, technically, I did this for work, but I've decided that it counts.


I am swamped. You must take what you get.


So, I created a giant board game in which the teens are the pieces and the players.


Basically, it's Cranium, but I changed the art so that
a) the teens wouldn't know what it was until I told them
and
b) I could take pictures and post them places without worrying about copyright infringement and lawsuits and other such things.


I used 25 pieces of poster board and blue painter's tape because it shouldn't leave much of a sticky residue. It took me about an hour and a half to tape the lines.


So, these are the board squares:

This is the start/home square. It comes up periodically throughout the game; when you land on this, you get to choose which category to attempt. The exception: when you land on the last of these squares, everyone else playing the game chooses your category for you.

This is the facts/trivia square.
In what country were fortune cookies invented?

This is the art square.
Draw a pelican. With your eyes closed. In a minute or less.

This is the words/language square.
As a team, you must spell the word "sudoku" backwards.

This is the performance square. 
You must act out and get your team to guess the following animal with no speaking or pointing at other objects: humpback whale.

Here's the game board.

Here's a close-up of the center/lines.

I had 25 teens play this yesterday, and I'm hoping for the same numbers today. After that I will pull the tape up. However, I'm going to keep the squares in case we ever want to play again.