Flying Paper Plane Competition
Nothing better than a good old game of paper plane flying.
I love retro games. They are simple games but they are loads of fun.
Nothing beats a game of Ludo (sat on nan’s lap on a cold winter day) or pooh sticks game (during the Sunday walk after a nice and filling Sunday roast) or building a den in the forest with your buddies on a hot summer day.
I felt a bit nostalgic yesterday and thought of all the things I used to play with as a child.
One of the things I remembered playing a lot with is paper planes.
I mentioned it to Dylan and he welcomed the activity with enthusiasm.
We found an easy template for our planes (just a traditional paper plane template) on Wikipedia, made our paper planes, coloured them and gave them names (mine's called Speedo and Dylan's Lightning).
We tried to fly our planes from the upstairs window first but both our planes landed in the neighbours’ garden (oops!) so we decided to launch them from the top of the stairs instead but it did not really work. Our planes needed more space (open space) so we went and played in the garden.
After the warm-up we started our “Flying Paper Plane Competition”. Dylan and I are very competitive so we like a good competition.
Our competition was made up of 5 activities (each player had 10 attempts per activity):
1- Make our paper plane fly the farthest (difficulty: easy)
2- Land our paper plane in the big circle (difficulty: easy)
3- Land our paper plane in the small circle (difficulty: medium)
4- Land our paper plane on the garden chair (difficulty: medium)
5- Land our paper plane on the trampoline through the zip door (difficulty: hard)
Dylan did really well but I won (only because I am bigger of course).
I love retro games. They are simple games but they are loads of fun.
Nothing beats a game of Ludo (sat on nan’s lap on a cold winter day) or pooh sticks game (during the Sunday walk after a nice and filling Sunday roast) or building a den in the forest with your buddies on a hot summer day.
I felt a bit nostalgic yesterday and thought of all the things I used to play with as a child.
One of the things I remembered playing a lot with is paper planes.
I mentioned it to Dylan and he welcomed the activity with enthusiasm.
We found an easy template for our planes (just a traditional paper plane template) on Wikipedia, made our paper planes, coloured them and gave them names (mine's called Speedo and Dylan's Lightning).
We tried to fly our planes from the upstairs window first but both our planes landed in the neighbours’ garden (oops!) so we decided to launch them from the top of the stairs instead but it did not really work. Our planes needed more space (open space) so we went and played in the garden.
After the warm-up we started our “Flying Paper Plane Competition”. Dylan and I are very competitive so we like a good competition.
Our competition was made up of 5 activities (each player had 10 attempts per activity):
1- Make our paper plane fly the farthest (difficulty: easy)
2- Land our paper plane in the big circle (difficulty: easy)
3- Land our paper plane in the small circle (difficulty: medium)
4- Land our paper plane on the garden chair (difficulty: medium)
5- Land our paper plane on the trampoline through the zip door (difficulty: hard)
Dylan did really well but I won (only because I am bigger of course).
He is a bit of sore loser though (he threw
his plane on the ground because he did not win). Oh well, it is
all part of growing up.
PS: He got over it very quickly thanks to the consolation prize (a nice ice lolly).
PS: He got over it very quickly thanks to the consolation prize (a nice ice lolly).
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