Inside the Beltway - Cheap Shots: More Milk Lid ideas

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Jul. 30, 2006

Cheap Shots: More Milk Lid ideas

      Here are more ways to use the colorful learning tools that come free with every plastic gallon jug. You can draw your own bingo boards on notebook size paper, dividing a 7.5 by 7.5 inch square into five rows of five squares measuring 1.5 by 1.5 inches. This is just the right size for using the lids as markers. If you make your homemade game boards big enough they can serve as game pieces as well.
      We like playing "chip toss". We take 3 plastic mixing bowls and line them up so the largest is about 30 inches from the starting line, the middle-sized one about 8 inches farther, and the smallest one about 8 inches farther still. Everyone takes turns standing behind the line and tossing 5 milk lids one at a time. You get 50 points for landing it in the big bowl, 100 for the medium, and 200 for the large. We give a 250 bonus if you land all five in at least 2 different bowls. We play this with neighborhood kids and make it a team sport.
       You know that science experiment in which you magnetize a needle and stick it through a cork. When you float the cork on water, the needle points north. Well, corks aren't something I usually have lying around, so I carefully pushed the magnetized needle through the sides of the milk lid and floated the lid up side down.
       Finally, just use a permanent marker to write number values on the milk lids, and they make great "coins" for play shopping, treasure hunts, and "prizes".

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Jul. 30, 2006 - thanks