Float a Feather
Should you come across a feather, using the grabber tool, gently grab the feather by the pointy stick end (called the quill or Calamus, pronounced KAL-e-mes), hold it up high and let it go. If it is a small fluffy feather it might float for quite a distance. If it is a longer feather is should spin downward.
Should you come across a feather, using the grabber tool, gently grab the feather by the pointy stick end (called the quill or Calamus, pronounced KAL-e-mes), hold it up high and let it go. If it is a small fluffy feather it might float for quite a distance. If it is a longer feather is should spin downward.
Surmise the Leavings
#1. Spy a generalized course that will take you across an empty, and appearingly-clean, athletic field*.
* Your course doesn't have to be an athletic field, but the game seems to create more of a personal challenge if you can view the majority of the course from where you are starting.
#2. Predict, before you start venturing your course, how many pieces of litter you will end up collecting.
#3. Venture your course, taking a mental count every time you "net" a piece of litter. (A scientist would record the number of pieces picked up; this game allows for mental notes!)
#4. When you get to the end of your course, determine if you underestimated your prediction, overestimate or were right on your prediction!
>That is one of 2 endings to this game<
ENDING #2: Look back at the field/course you ventured. Thinking about what "litter" you just picked up along that course (did you find waterbottle caps? Hair ties? Band-Aids???) , can you get your mind to think of what has been happening on that field to create the litter you found? Play that game in your head. If you are with friends/family, tell them what your mind came up with...it if is appropriate to do so : []
EXTRA CREDIT: Remembering how close you were to your prediction, repeat the game on another section of that field, or on another field or on another day. Are your results getting closer to your predictions? Ask yourself why you might be getting more/less accurate on your predictions.
(maybe your questions might be something to put in the Community Forum part of this website -which I have yet to edit and fill with content!!!)
Bundling Bits
Sometimes, while venturing with the T.A.P. grabber & net, you might come across a concentration of litter pieces. Maybe there was a confetti-celebration or a chain smoker nearby.
Rather than picking up and "netting" one piece of litter at a time, try picking up a piece of litter and place it on top of another piece of litter and then pick the two up as one and net them.
Can you do a pick up three separate pieces of litter? Can you do four???
Another Bundle of fun:
If you found a paper or plastic cup on your ventures, gently place the cup on the ground, mouth side up, and place small pieces of litter in the cup. Grab the cup and gently move it to another location, not loosing any litter already placed in it, and put more pieces of litter in it. Fill up the cup AND THEN net the cup!
Any suggestions for a game played with t.a.p.?
If you came up with a game you like playing while venturing along using the T.A.P. grabbing tool, please let us know. We might place it in this space.
