Coins in the Bucket Game

 Age Range: 4-11  

Equipment needed: Bucket filled with around 3/4 water, coins and a small glass/container

Coins in the Bucket Game

In this post, you will find a step by step guide on how to play the coins in the bucket game or alternatively watch the video at the bottom of the page to see how to play this game

The coins in the bucket game is an easy indoor and outdoor game for kids that provides a lot of amusement for only a handful of coins.  

Try your luck at this watery coins in a bucket game where you’ll find it’s not easy than it looks. You can have as many people as you want to play this game. 

To play the coins in the bucket game you will need:

• One bucket filled with around 3/4 of water for that bucket
  
• Any coins you find, but be sure to ask your parents' permission before you do use them. 
• A small glass or container which you will place at the bottom in the centre of your bucket 
  
  
  

Playing the game

Players must drop the coin into the bucket one by one from a height of at least 3 feet from the floor and aim to have them land into the glass. 

Coins dropped that land outside the glass will not be counted. One minute for each player and the player who drops the most coins inside the glass in one
minute wins.

 How to progress....

To progress this game, you could drop the coins from a taller position or use a smaller glass to get your coins in. 

 

Watch the video to see how to play the coins in the bucket game:

 

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Addition and Multiplication Pyramid Game

 Age Range : 6-11

Equipment needed: Deck of Cards 

Addition and Multiplication Pyramid Game

In this post, you will find a step by step guide on how to play this game or alternatively watch the video at the bottom of the page to see this game in action

This is a two-player educational game that will help increase your addition and multiplication skills. For this game, you will need a deck of cards. The aim of this game is to earn the most points. So now with your deck of cards, I'm now going to show how to play this game. 

 Firstly, make a pyramid                                                                              

 To make a pyramid, place one card face up at the top of your pyramid. Place 2 cards beneath partially covering it, then another three cards beneath them and so on completing with a row of 7 cards. You should have altogether 28 cards for your pyramid.

Points values for this game are that all number cards equal that number of points. Jacks, Queens and Kings equal 10 and Aces can either be 1 or 11.

 

1st player will choose two uncovered cards and add them to make a sum.  Since the object of this game is to get the most points, player 1 will pick two cards that will make the highest sum. For example, from the image below, player 1 can choose anything from the bottom row because these cards are uncovered. They will choose the King and Jack as that makes the highest sum. As they choose, you take them both away and write their sum on a piece of paper. Player 2 then chooses two of the uncovered cards to make the highest sum possible. Players keep adding two uncovered cards and writing down the sums until there are no cards left.

 

  Once all cards have been used, players add up all of their sums and the player with the most points wins. 

  To make the game more fun, try not to add them as you go along. This will make it more of a surprise who the winner will be.

                                                

 

In some cases near the end of the game, as shown here in the picture below, there will only be one uncovered card available. In this case, the player must take the 3 and will add 0 to it since there is no other card to take. The player will then get 3 points for it.  

  How to progress....... 

To progress this game, you can use multiplication instead of addition to play.

To play the multiplication version of this game, players will multiply the cards to make a total rather than adding them to make a sum. Once all cards have been used, players will add up all their scores. Player with the most points wins. There you have it, the Addition or Multiplication Pyramid Game.

 

Watch the video to see how to play the addition or multiplication pyramid game:

               

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