Saturday, June 20, 2009

The many uses of foam swords


Back in February we were at the store and bought the boys foam swords to play with. When saying we bought the boys, I mean we had to buy 3 swords, one for daddy. It is no fun to play swords with out daddy. Amazingly enough we still have intact 2 of the 3 foam swords. I didn't expect them to last very long at all before getting broken.
The boys really have had a great time playing with their swords during the last few months. I will share with you the many games they have played with the swords. Of course their is classic sword fight with sound effects and all.
By far the boy's favorite game to play with the swords is baseball. One of the boys will pitch the random purple Easter egg that never got put away, the other will swing and hit a home run, then run the bases.
Using the same plastic egg, they will use the sword to hit the egg like golf ball and play a round of golf, usually only playing 9 holes, not the full 18.
Moving away from the purple plastic egg, to the letter magnets on the fridge. They will take a magnet off the fridge and put it on the floor, and use the sword as a hockey stick. The puck will slide along the floor and they score a goal when the puck goes under a rug.
I'm sure the swords have been used in other creative games, I'm just not thinking of them right now. I'm surprised they haven't use the swords to go fishing, which they generally do with sticks. The pictures above are from February when we first got the swords, Thomas is in the grey and Michael in the red.

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