HANDS-ON Practice Problems 21-30


Given:  a box of craft items.
Team must make something that symbolizes OM and their feelings about OM.


The task is to move all 5 team members from point A to point B (20 feet) as quickly  as possible. At no time may more that 3 hands or feet (or combination thereof be in contact with the floor. All members must be moved at the same time.
If more than 3 hands or feet touch the floor, the entire team must return to the starting line and begin again.


Given: 10 popsicle sticks, 5 toothpicks, 2 straws, 5 mailing labels, 2S marshmallows.
You have 5 minutes to build a structure supporting a Styrofoam cup into which you will put pennies.
Scoring- 3 points for each inch of height, 1 point for each penny held.


Given:  a perceptual puzzle of 1 2 pieces.

Match each edge with the appropriate piece to make a square.

    a         b         b         c           a          a        
d   b     d  a      d  c      d  b      b  c       b  d    
    c         c         a         a           d          c         


   b          c         b           a         d         a
c  a      b  d     a   d      a   d     b  c      b  d
   d          a         c           b         a         c


Given: 5 straws, 3 paper clips, rubber band, paper, small plastic container,  25 wine bottle corks.
Build a structure that holds as many corks as possible. The score for each cork is it's heightin inches above the surface.
Total Score: sum all cork scores.



Given:  9 whole pencils.
See how many equal triangles you can form.



Given:  20 marshmallows, 50 toothpicks.
Build the tallest structure possible in 5 minutes.


Given:  clear lidded container full of pre-counted dry beans, two small
paper cups, one plastic cup, one ruler, one piece of paper, one pencil.
The team will have three minutes to solve this problem.
The solution may be discussed with teammates at any time, however, questions to the judge will be answered only in the first minute.
The problem is to count or estimate the beans in the jar.
Up to 10 extra points will be awarded for teamwork and the creativity of the solution



Given:  20 toothpicks, 1 foot long piece of masking tape, 1/4 can of Play-dough, 1 piece of paper, 4 straws, 4 paper clips, 1 roll of pennies.
You must build a structure at least 10 inches tall. You must use a team created container that sits on top of the structure. It must hold weight in pennies.
The more pennies, the more points.



Given:  1 straw, 1 ft. string, 1 mailing label, 1 paper clip, tennis balls, 1 rubber band, 1 toothpick, 1 ballpoint pen, 1 popsicle stick.
You have 2 minutes to build and test something that can catch a tennis ball thrown by a team member from a distance of 1 5 feet.
At the end of the planning and building time, choose one person to pitch and one person to catch the balls that are not caught by the device constructed.
The team has an additional 2 minutes to successfully catch 3 balls.
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