Objective
To get four of a kind and take a spoon. Once one spoon is taken, everybody attempts to get the remaining spoons.
Play
From 3 to 8 players use a deck of 52 ordinary playing cards and a number of spoons totaling one fewer than the number of players. The spoons are placed in the center of [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Spoons
Posted in Fun Games on March 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Slap
Posted in Fun Games on March 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Playing the game
Shuffle the deck and deal out all cards. It’s okay if one person gets an extra card, just make sure you shift dealers every game. Do not look at the cards. Organize them in a pile and shuffle them. The player left of the dealer goes first (the non-dealer in a 2 player [...]
Fantasy Fudge
Posted in My Kitchen Favorites on March 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Prep: 10 min. plus cooling
cook : 15 min.
What you will need:
3 cups of sugar
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter or margarine
5 oz. can evaporated milk
12 squares Baker’s Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate, chopped
7 oz. jar Jet-Puffed Marshmallow Cream
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 tsp. vanilla
Heat sugar, butter and evaporated milk to full rolling boil in 3-quart heavy saucepan on [...]
Brown Suger Brownies
Posted in My Kitchen Favorites on March 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Ingredients
2/3 cup butter
1 1/3 cup brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 large eggs
1 2/3 cup all-purpose
1 teaspoon baking powder
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease an 8 x 8-inch baking pan. Line it with parchment paper or dust it with flour.
1. Melt the butter in the microwave. Stir in the brown sugar and [...]
Bubbles!
Posted in Fun Science on March 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What you will need:
12 cups of water
1 cup liquid dish soap
2 ounces glycerine (available at your pharmacy)
Put everything into a 1 gallon container and shake gently to mix. Now you can blow bubbles, with styrofoam cups with a pencil hole poked into the bottom, wire hangers bent into circles, or funnels. Have fun!
Sugar Crystals
Posted in Fun Science on March 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What you will need:
powdered sugar (dissolves easier than plain sugar)
boiling water
clear glass
cotton yarn
pencil
paper clip
Pour 1/4 cup hot water into a small mixing bowl and add enough sugar until absolutely no more will dissolve, approximately 1 cup. To form your crystals tie one piece of yarn to your pencil and a paper clip [...]
Umbrella
Posted in Fun Games on March 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For this game you need 2 or more people, but the more people the more fun. Start out by saying something you would bring to the beach, but you are only aloud to bring it unless you say “ummm”. For example, “Ummm, a shirt.” When explaining the game don’t tell them [...]
