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Tricky Challenges
Flick a coin off your elbow and catch it
Put your right hand on your right shoulder. Point your elbow out in front of you and lift your elbow up. Lay a penny on the flat part of your arm above your elbow. Without moving your arm, turn your hand so the palm of your hand is facing up. Very quickly move your elbow down and try and catch the penny with your right hand as it falls. The record for caught pennies when I was a kid was a stack of 14!
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Armpit farts
To make a good armpit fart, place your hand in your bare armpit. Hook your thumb up so it is pointing towards your shoulder. Then move your arm up and down quickly to make a farting noise. It might take a bit of practice to make a farting sound.
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Can’t touch the floor!
There are different variations for this tricky game. You can play so your feet can’t touch the floor and you have to walk on your hands, roll or slither on your stomach. Or you can play so none of your body can touch the floor. In this case, use pieces of paper to walk on, or cushions. If you are outside you can use leaves—do not let your feet touch the grass. You can make paths to walk on, make jumps and long steps to make it more challenging.
- Build a house of cards
Build a house by stacking playing cards on their edges. See if you can use the whole deck without your house collapsing.
- Teach your pet a new trick
Even cats can learn tricks. I taught my cat to jump through a hoop, sit on a chair, roll over, shake a paw, sit up, and lay down.
Hint: Be gentle and patient and bribe them with their favourite treat. Also teach them one trick at a time. Once they have learned one--it might take a few days--then move on to teaching them another one.
- Burst a paper bag
Blow a paper bag full of air. Hold the bag closed and bang hard on the bottom to make it break. When it breaks it will make a loud bang.
- Tennis Ball Races
Using only your nose, push your tennis ball along the floor and try to beat the other racers across the finish line.
- What can you do without thumbs?
Have someone gently tape your thumbs to the side of your hand. Try different things like tying your shoes and writing your name.
- Tongue twisters
Can you say these tricky phrases 10 times, really fast, without messing up?
Mass at the Mosque
Toy Boat
The skunk said the stump stunk.
She sells seashells at the seashore.
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- Do gymnastics
Cartwheels, somersaults, hand-stands and more!
- Jump on your bed
(If you are allowed.)
- Crazy arms!
Stand in a doorjamb with your arms out at your sides. Push the tops of your hands against the doorjamb. Push as hard as you can for about a minute. Step out of the doorjamb and relax your arms. They should feel like they are going to lift themselves up all alone!
- Moonwalk
Instructions: Walk backwards, but don’t let your toes or the balls of your feet (the part of your foot behind your toes) leave the ground. To move, come up on the ball of your right foot. Slide your left foot back without lifting it from the ground. Keep your whole left foot on the ground as you slide it. Then switch feet.
Hint: Wear socks so you slide better.
It will look like you are walking forward, but you are actually sliding backwards.
- Do martial arts
Karate, Kung Fu, Tai Kwon Do, Judo and Jujitsu are several forms of martial arts.
- Do pencil tricks
Try and hold a pencil (or pen) between your upper lip and your nose. Also try between your lower lip and your chin. You can also try balancing it on your ear, nose and on your eyebrows.
- Phoon
Basically, you pose like you are running, but you are not. Then take a picture. See all the strange places you can phoon.
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- Make faces with a flashlight
A good place to do this is in front of a mirror in a dark place like a bathroom. Place the flashlight under your chin and shine it up to your face. Make scary faces. Rrrrrrrrr!
- Flip a coin
Heads or tails? Heads is the side with the Queen’s (or other person`s) head, tails is the side with the animal.
- Make salt crystals
Materials needed: table salt, water, a pot, spoon, measuring cup, saucer, paper
With help from an adult, bring 180 mL (¾ cup) of water to a boil. Remove it from the stove and slowly stir in the salt. Do this very slowly. You want to dissolve as much salt in the water as you can. Take lots of time. The water may be a bit cloudy from the salt, but keep adding salt in until it no longer dissolves (it starts to stay on the bottom of the pot after stirring). Have an adult pour the hot, salty water into a saucer. (If there are bits of salt at the bottom of the pot, do not pour that into the saucer.) Cover the saucer with a piece of paper. Let the saucer sit (don’t move it) for the next few days and let the water slowly evaporate. You should see crystals start to form within a few days.
Note: You can also make crystals by using sugar instead of salt.
- Plan a practical joke
Make sure your joke won’t hurt anyone because then it wouldn’t be funny, just mean.
A good practical joke is short sheeting someone’s bed. To short sheet someone’s bed, take the blanket, pillow and top sheet off their bed. Take the top sheet and tuck the end under the mattress up at the head of the bed (like you would if you were making your bed, but you are tucking the end in at the head end instead of the foot end of the bed. Now pull the sheet down flat over the bed. About half way down fold the loose end of the sheet back up towards the head end of the bed. Place the blanket over the sheet like you were making the bed. Fold the extra end of the sheet over the edge of the blanket like you normally would. The only thing that is different is when someone tries to put their feet down in their made bed, they won’t be able to because their sheet is folded. If you have a fake dog poop or a fake spider, place that in there too!
- Celing Stars
In a dark room, shine a flashlight through a strainer or colander. It will make star shapes on your ceiling.
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