Junk Night

I had found an idea in one of our playtime resource books - the title of which I can't think of right now so if anyone wants to know what it is, please say so in the comments and I'll go look it up - that uses old milk cartons and aluminum cans. I adapted them and came up with some new games for the Middle Schoolers to try. I cut some milk cartons so that they looked like scoops and we each decorated our own jug with Sharpies and then tossed a plastic ball across the room toward one another. I have a video down below. It was fun and this method of flinging things can be adapted for all sorts of games.
The other idea was to cut the tops off aluminum cans and then cut the cans in half. You need to be very careful with this one, because the cutting can create some jagged edges. Once the edges are ready - all smoothly cut - you hold the can with the bottom half toward you and throw it like a football. They really move and if there is any sort of dent or lip on the can, it will effect the way the can flies. We spent some time seeing what they would do and how far they would fly. They can fly very far if the can is not dented. We lost a couple of them and I suspect that a couple may be found someday when an unsuspecting reader takes a book off the shelf - I saw several fly in that direction!
The last game we played used rubber bands. I found a lot of styrofoam containers in the LOGOS closet and scattered them around the room. Ones closer to the group had a lower value than ones further across the room. Then, we shot rubber bands at them. The idea was to get as many rubber bands in the higher valued containers as possible. This didn't work out as well; we sort of degenerated into a rubber band war. I wasn't surprised because there is nothing more our group likes to do than throw or shoot things at each other!

This is the cans flying through the air.



Here are the scoops in action!