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From YouTube: Get Ready, Get Set, GO!: #1 - Yank Me Around

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Enjoy these quick challenges that you can do at home to entertain yourself this summer (or any time!) when you are not reading books. Brought to you by the Children’s Librarians of Buncombe County.
It is so important to keep your brain AND your body active! These challenges will help you do just that.

• Yank Me Around: Stack plastic cups into a tower with a sheet of cardstock in between each cup. Adjust the number of cups depending on the level of difficulty that you desire – 2? 3? 5?! Quickly and carefully yank out each piece of cardstock so that the cups fall and nest into a single stack. If you knock the tower over, you must start over!

Materials:
-Several plastic cups (Solo cups work well)
-Sheets of cardstock to stack in between (we cut each full piece of cardstock into four quarters)
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Hello friends at home, we're back for another round of youth services games. Today's game is going to be a little bit different from our last one, which was the penny tower now we're doing the red solo cup stack. In order to play this game, you need to have a little stack of red solo cups and some cardstock.

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Now you can use a full page of cardstock, but we have found that if you cut it into quarters, it makes this challenge easier.

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The way to play this game is to stack your solo cups, face up with the opening on top and put pieces of cardstock in between the cups. As you can see demonstrated by our lovely competitors.

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There you go now when we actually start the competition. The goal is to yank out the cardstock as fast as you can, so that the cup on top nests inside the cup on the bottom. In just a moment, our contestants are going to demonstrate this. With one stack, two cups on your marks get set, go dang. They are good.

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They are good, that's lulu! That's raj! That's meredith! They all mastered the one cup swipe now we're gonna do the next tower up so contestants get your cups ready, they've got their base they're putting their cardstock on they've got their first cup stacked they're, going to put another cards cardstock on and now they've got their second cup stack. So that's a total of three cups.

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Now, at this point, friends at home, you've got a choice. You've got the option to pull the card from the top or from the bottom. You might find that one method is easier right. Now we're going to see what our contestants choose, they might not choose the same on your marks. Get set, go oh they're all doing well, let's see if they can continue to whoa.

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That's right: that's meredith! They are masters, we're gonna, try it the next step up, we're gonna, try it with four cups: that's three cups stacked on top of the base and we're just being safe with a little hand. Sanitizer, since we just made contact, be safe at home, friends, be safe at home, all right contestants. Are you ready? Yes, you guys are making me sweat just watching you you're doing amazing. This is good. This is good! Okay! Here we go so we've got the base cup, keep it together. Raj we've got the base.

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We've got the card stock, we've got cup number one, we've got more cardstock, we've got cup number two, we've got more cardstock and we're gonna. Do cup number three for a total of four cups.

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Now remember boys and girls at home. If your tower knocks over at any point, you are disqualified from this round, so you gotta be careful. You gotta make good choices all right contestants. Are you ready? Yes, let's start pulling.

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Let's see meredith is the winner so far, but come on very nicely done all right. So shall we go one more cup high see what's happening, man? Yes, you guys. I am so thoroughly impressed.

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We've got the base, we've got the first cup. We've got all that cardstock in between.

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All right, these towers are looking beautiful.

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Let's hope the nests look just as good.

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All right, friends, friends, here friends at home, we're gonna, make this happen on your marks, get set.

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That was fun thanks for playing the cardstock cup stacking game with us. Please try this at home. Please try this with your family. Raj is going to go for a bonus round, let's see if he can do it. Oh, my goodness!

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He's got magic hands. He sure all right, we'll see you next time.