Grape Run

Inspired by Sher and Joel, I decide to do a marble run as well.

I pull apart new boxes of cereal. This was akin to pouring out the whole packet of cereal so that one could get to the toy at the bottom of the box. I'd decided that today was the day I would make the marble run because they were giving out grapes at work and as discovered by Sher, grapes make a great replacement for marbles and there wasn't the concern that anyone would swallow them.

Of course, it led me to the realisation that I was no engineer and for once in my life, I thought about how useful it would be if I actually understood an ounce of physics. What was the most time consuming was making sure the slopes were steep enough for the grape to roll down.

And then after trialling the slopes and eating many grapes in the process, I realised I needed barriers so that the grapes wouldn't roll off the sides and go squish onto the ground.




































Eventually, I got it all to work and the twins were thrilled. They were thrilled that they could roll the grapes down the slopes and at the end of that, they could eat the grapes. They played through an entire bunch of grapes.




Of course, the gender thing once again showed itself quite clearly. Evan was curious as to how to work the slopes. He'd tilt the box in all directions. He'd go onto all fours and try and look at it from below to see if he could work it out a little better. He'd stick his fingers into the holes and wiggle them around. Jordan just clapped her hands with glee when the grape barrelled its way down. And she was happy to pull the grape out from below and eat it at the end.

I wanted to try to give them different sized round objects and see if they could figure out which ones would fit and which ones wouldn't. But we didn't have enough time. Perhaps tomorrow!




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