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There are a few things we like to do at the Left Brain Craft Brain house… One is STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math) activities. Another thing is to play with our food, despite what my mom taught me when I was little. So this week, we combined the two into some Goldfish cracker STEAM Activity Snacks. And it was fun, educational & delicious!! #GoldfishMix #CollectiveBias
Goldfish Cracker Pulley Engineering Snack
First on the list was some cracker engineering. A three-wheel recycled cardboard pulley system to be exact. The Babe had fun experimenting with how the different wheel configurations changed how easily the cup full of Goldfish crackers moved. Playing with this (and making the crackers spill up over the top!) was about as deliciously fun to her as the crackers.
Supplies Needed
This online version of Go Fish was made by me. My name is Einar Egilsson and over there on the left is my current Facebook profile picture! This is the 8th card game I make, the other ones being Whist, Spades, Hearts, Solitaire, Idiot, Shithead and Crazy Eights. Go Fish might seem like a weird game to have a computer version of, but there were. Goldfish Fun Games is a new category that we have brought here on our site especially for all the girls and the boys who want new challenges. We have here a lot of games fr girls and boys of all ages. Tell us in a comment which was the game that kept you the most in front of the computer because we want to read your comments.
- 6 paper towel rolls or wrapping paper roll cut into pieces
- 3 straws
- 3 empty ribbon spools
- baker’s twine
- small plastic cup or container
- masking tape
- scissors
- pen or screwdriver to poke holes in cup
- Make the pulley basket: Take the plastic cup and poke two holes in it, directly across from each other. Feed twine through each hole and tie, giving the cup a short handle. Then tie a 1 1/2 yard piece of twine to the center of the cup handle.
- Construct the pulley supports:
- Cut paper rolls to desired lengths. I used 4 at paper towel roll length and 2 at a shorter length.
- Poke a hole into one end of a paper roll, approximately 1″ from edge. Poke another hole, also 1″ from edge, directly opposite the circle from the first hole. Make holes large enough for a straw to fit easily through. Repeat with the remaining five rolls.
- Take two matching height rolls. Feed a straw (the pulley shaft) through both holes in a roll, then the hole in a ribbon spool and then through the second roll. Repeat with the other two sets of rolls.
- Tape the bottoms of the paper towel rolls to a stable table with masking tape. The rolls should be just narrower than a straw’s length apart. Then tape the next two pulleys.
- Feed and play with the pulleys: Pull twine over the first ribbon spool, under the second ribbon spool and over the third ribbon spool. Fill the basket with Goldfish crackers and lift away! My daughter’s favorite part was making the basket go up and over the first pulley, making a shower of Goldfish crackers :)
Goldfish Cracker Math Game Snack
Next up is a little snack math… The goal of this activity is to practice a few basic math skills while having some tasty fun. Kids will count, color sort and practice their dice skills.
Game rules: The first person to collect 20 Goldfish crackers and have at least one cracker in each color wins. Players gain Goldfish by rolling the die and picking a pom pom from a bag. Players then grab as many crackers as the die says in the same color of the pom pom they chose.
Supplies Needed:
- A bowl of Goldfish crackers Colors
- one die
- pom poms in yellow, orange, red & green
- opaque bag large enough to fit the pom poms
- paper & pen
Draw the game scorecard by dividing a sheet of paper into 3 columns and 5 rows. Label the rows with the four colors of Goldfish crackers (red, yellow, orange & green). I drew a colored cracker on each of the rows, but my daughter preferred to use a real cracker to label them. Then label the columns with the player’s names.
Want the kids to have a smaller snack? Have them play to 10, not 20. Are they really hungry? They could play to 55, which is one serving of Goldfish crackers.
Goldfish Cracker Mosaic Art Snack
Another way my daughter enjoyed of the Goldfish Cracker STEAM Snack was to do a bit of art. Specifically some mosaic making with fruit and vegetables.
Supplies Needed:
- Goldfish crackers
- Other snack food like fruit, cheese, vegetables, etc.
- Paint palettes (clean!)
- Tray or plate
Set out their supplies and let them have it! When we did this art snack, The Babe was pretty hungry. So the ratio of creative mosaic making to eating was actually quite low. But she loved it nonetheless, especially having lunch served on an artist palette.
Snack Wins
Food can be a challenge for both kiddos and parents. I’ve got a picky preschooler on my hands, but a few of those colorful Goldfish crackers always brings a smile to her face. They make a great snack, a great way to play & a great way to learn. Plus I love that they contain natural ingredients like paprika and watermelon to give them their fun colors instead of those numbered colors that we try to avoid. Luckily for me, Walmart has them on rollback right now for $5.98. Because that pulley holds A LOT of Goldfish crackers. Check them out on Facebook or Twitter to find new recipes and fun things to do with Goldfish crackers.
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Next we move further with our best categories and bring you a lot of new and beautiful online categories to offer to you. This time the administrative team of games-kids.com has decided to offer you a new and fun online category and we invite you to play it with us. This time the new category that we have for you is with new characters, characters that you may now even know yet and we are happy to introduce them to you and give you new friends and games to play. This new and fun online category is dedicated to the Gold Fish Fun serie and we will try to make all that it is possible to offer you the best games that have appeared with the characters from the serie. Because it is very new and you may now heard of it until now, we will make sure you get to know the characters and the story by offering you all the details we know about them. So , we invite you to come and join us in this new and fun category that we have for you, read the following lines and after that, play the games. What do you say about our new categories? Well we are sure that you must be excited every time you see a new game on our website. This time you have games with a fun fish, a Golden Fish who is always looking for fun activities. Here in this new category that we have for you, you are invited to join him and go trough different adventures together. The name of this golden fish is Finn and here we will make sure you have games with him and his friends. Finn is a tru leader, one of the born ones, with many talents to show you. He likes to make jokes and have fun, but he is always there where his friends needs his help, giving everything he can. Wherever there are fun activieties, he is there right in the center of it. One of his friends is Broke, a very talented girl fish who can build anything she has in mind, no matter what. Broke is extremely smart and creative and very optimistic. Extreme is also one of Finn’s friends, the one that knows only to be fast, to go on full speed. Extreme likes to make stunts, proving that he is a real daredevil. He love to make jokes on everyone but besides this, he is the most loyal friends one could ever have. Each one of Finn’s friends gave different qualities and so here it is Gilbert, a very childish fish who is very silly easy to be scared and with a very kind heart. What Gilberts loves the most is to be surrounded by his friends and those who he loves. You know about three of his friends, but there are more and we want you to discover them by playing the games that we have to offer especially for you. Come and join your friends from the serie Goldfish Fun and have a lot of fun playing their games!
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