Here are a couple
Baseball for the street.
Needed:
1) 1 broomstick or something similar
2) Several caps from 5 gal water bottles.
Caps are frizzbied at batter who tries to bat them with stick...rest is like stickball
Plaquita
Needed:
1) 2 old license plates (
placas in Spanish), bent about two inches in from each end making a very wide (_______) sort of shape
2) two bats of anything you want.
3) Rubber ball
Game is essentially cricket without the English formality. The plaquitas are placed about 40'apart.
Played in the street between teams of 2. The offensive side defends the
plaquitas with the bats and the defensive team trys to knock one down for an 'out" the pitcher throws from about 40 feet away. When the ball is hit the two batsmen run back and forthSwitching places, really, until the ball in back in play and in danger of toppling the plate. Placing the bat on the ground by the placa signifies "safe" . three outs to a side..play til you drop...
Trucks out of oil bottles....
From my youth in Guatemala:
A "Capirucho"
this is like the cup and ball on a string toy but made by hand from wooden thread spools.
Needed:
Piece of broken glass-triangular shape
Wooden spool of thread-empty
Some good string.
Old lead pencil:
thin piece of wood-like two Popcickle(?) sticks glued together and rounded off.. a twig from a good tree serves just as well.
On one end of the spool, the glass is twisted and twisted making a V shaped cavity in the base of the spool. This is made as wide and as deep as possible. It needs to be sanded smooth. The other end of the spool is sanded off until nearly , but not, flush with the center.
About a 1/4" piece of the old lead pencil is cut off and the lead taken out.
The good string is passed thru the hollowed out piece of pencil and knotted real big so it won't come out. This is then fitted into the other end of the spool with the string tailing out. There should be 5 and 1/2 turns around the spool between the end of the stick and the stoppered thread.
The trick is to get the spool to flip up onto the stick. Almost the reverse of the store bought toy.
If you want more info on this email me!!
HB