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Hi Alissa - Always a challenge! Glad you started the conversation.
*Bin of wooden "dominoes" for setting up and knocking down - esp if
there's floor space around the counter
*Dowels and rubber bands - again, floor space
*Bin of a variety of caps (shaving cream, milk, etc.) - stacking,
towering, sorting
*Prints of the FETCH! activity guide to Throw Your Weight Around -
tricks to play with body balance against walls and with a chair
*If OK with water - pennies-and-foil-boats, but with washers instead of
pennies, and Flinker from Zoom (like sink and float... with flink!)
*String telephones, at least for testing if not constructing
*Build a mini-arch bridge
*Build a paper bridge, test with washers
*Copies of optical illusions
*Paper clip catapult (from Zoom)
*Fold origami jumping frogs from index cards - how far can you make it jump
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Daniels, Alissa wrote:
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> we have a counter where we do science activities, but when we're short-staffed we try to have simple activities on the counter that visitors can figure out themselves. I'm looking for new ideas. They need to be a)simple and self-explanatory b) free of scissors, markers, crayons or other things with which our visitors could damage the building or themselves c)cheap and easily restockable (since visitors will take anything that's not nailed down)
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> successful stuff in the past:
> building towers with cups
> making shapes with pencils
> using cardboard tubes to listen to various sounds
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> thanks very much for all your fabulous ideas! (see? I know they'll be fabulous)
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