When I was a little girl, my very creative and innovative parents made up a fun little game. We often played it around bedtime. It involved the use of a hair dryer and those little bathroom-sized Dixie paper cups.
Its name? “Bathroom Atari.”
I don’t remember the exact rules….but it probably involved blowing around the little paper cup with the hair dryer until it sat upright, blew in or out of the sink, or did some other air-powered trick.
The details aren’t important. The most important thing was that it was heaps of fun, and the memories of us crowding around the small bathroom sink/counter and giggling uncontrollably still hang with me today.
I was able to share a variation of this game with my two recently, and like the idea did for me years ago, it created a fascination and joy that only simple toys/games can bring.
Each kid manned a hair dryer. It took several rounds before we figured out how to equate the air blowing capacity between the two. Plastic cups were all I had — I didn’t have those little bathroom cups — but the effect was still the same: Utter and complete fascination and amusement.
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Mom (1 year ago)
LOL!! I haven’t thought about that game in a long time! The object of the game was to blow the cup out of the sink and make it land upright on the counter. Not an easy thing, but you loved trying!