Bottle caps are ultimate quick-fun game pieces—cheap, easy to find and perfect for playing this fun twist on hopscotch.

What You Need

• Stretch of sidewalk or driveway
• Metal bottle caps

• Chalk

Instructions

1. Draw a spiral-shaped track of consecutive boxes and give each player an equal number of bottle caps.

2. To start, each player puts one cap on the square of his or her choice and initials the square in chalk. Players flip a coin to see who goes first, then the winner gets to shoot one of her bottle caps (flicking it with her thumb, marbles style) and try either to claim an empty spot or knock another player's cap off the board.

3. Any player that successfully knocks a cap out of bounds gets to claim the cap and the space -- everyone else will have to jump hopscotch style over it. Rub out the previous player's chalk initials and write in new initials. However, if a cap is flicked onto a marked space (without knocking that player's cap out), the cap goes to that player.

4. The first player keeps shooting until she misses, then she must jump the course, staying off her opponents' squares.

5. The next player shoots until he misses and then jumps the course, and so on. As the game progresses, more squares become off-limits and longer hops are necessary. A player is out of the game when she runs out of caps. The player who takes over the whole board or winds up with all the caps wins.

Variations:

When players have mastered the spiral shape, let them design their own grids to hop. Hand out the chalk and get each kid to come up with his own design of consecutive squares (or triangles or circles). Some ideas: rockets, pirate ships, mazes, dinosaurs and snakes.

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