8 April 05

Friday Afternoon Activity

cootiecatcher on tilesNext weekend is Picnic Day when over 50,000 people throng through campus seeing sheepdog trials, cockroach races, barrel making contests, and the like. I’ll be there at the Wildlife Health Center and this afternoon was working on a twist to the quiz for kids: a folded paper game that I learned today was called a “cootie catcher.” I remember playing with these as a kid in Madrid but never knew they had a name.

This may be a way for us to engage the imagination of kids who will be here in numbers next Saturday. Swainson’s hawks and island foxes need all the help they can get, and we don’t need kids growing up thinking that the best thing to do with a mountain lion is to shoot it. Some folding seems to be in my future…

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  1. The cootie-catchers ought to come in handy right about the time the cucarachas start feeling exploited and make a break for it. I used to make them (c-cs not roaches) as a child, too, but here not there.

    — Doc Rock    9. April 2005, 07:36    Link
  2. I love what you’ve made here. It would be nice to make some more imaginative / complex ones than the red-blue-one-two variety.

    — Coup de Vent    12. April 2005, 22:42    Link

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