Large Pick Up Sticks & Summer Fun #5

It’s FRIDAY! That means another great bunch of summer fun activities are comig your way. I’m sharing a fun tutorial for Large Pick Up Sticks you can play outside and my friends here have other brilliant ideas you NEED to try this summer. Be sure to check them all out, then scroll down for the pick up sticks tutorial

No Churn Peanut Butter Ice Cream – My Suburban Kitchen

I Squid You Not Shirts – Winter Wear Designs

Backyard Bowling – We are Far From Normal

Paper Plate Jellyfish– About a Mom

click here: Nap-Time Creations/Summer Fun to see all the posts in the series.

Okay, let’s get to the Large Pick Up Sticks game…Super easy to make and fun to play this game will but a hit with the whole family! Here’s a video with the game in action as well as many other lawn games..

You will need: Wooden Dowels {you can get them at Walmart, or other home improvement stores, or order on Amazon here.} You need between 50 and 60 of them. You can also use these for the giant Kerplunk game shown in the video… so we use the same sticks for both games. Any med. thickness dowel is fine… not too thin, not too thick..

3 or 4 colors of spray paint.. whatever you have on hand.

I just colored the ends of sticks. If you have tons of paint, you can do the full stick. 

The colors represent points, so one color will be about 1/2 the sticks. Then 1/4 will be another color. The rest should be 2 of the highest points and the rest the last color… for example 30 pink sticks, 20 blue sticks, 15 green sticks, 2/3 red sticks. 

We originally tried this game on the grass, but the grass made it to bouncy and hard to just move a single stick… the point of the whole game is to remove a single stick without moving any others, so we moved to the driveway and this was better. Hold all the sticks…

Then let them fall…

Take turns removing a stick. If you successfully get a stick out without moving any others, you keep the stick and keep going until you can’t remove a stick successfully. Then it goes to the next persons turn.

At the end of the game when all the sticks are picked up, each person counts thier points. We played Pink = 1, Blue = 2, Green = 3, Red = 5. 

Here are the past summer fun posts for you to check out!

Peach Caprese Salad – Mama Lews Blog

Pool Bag Tutorial – Whiskem

Loom Flowers – Underground Crafter

Super Hero Drinks – Beatnik Kids on Nap-Time Creations

 4 Tips for Teaching Kids to Crochet – Udnderground Crafter on Nap-Time CreationsGlittery Ocean Bottle – My Mom Made That

Underwater Limbo – 365 Days of Crafts

Red White and Blue Bark – The Chunky Chef

Pineapple Purse – Hey Let’s Make Stuff

Fruit Juice Jello Lego Snacks – Nap-Time Creations

Zipper Beach Bags – Sew What Alicia

Splatter Shirts – Andrea’s Notebook on Nap-Time Creations

Cotton Candy Cookies – Sweet Jenny Belle Bakery

Tie-Dye Shirts – Craft Critique