Duplo Labyrinth

Today's sparklefun activity at least as much for daddies as for the official audience in the 18-24 month zone: building a Duplo Labyrinth.

Taking inspiration from the classic Labyrinth game of rolling a ball through a maze of barriers and holes by tilting the board, most recently made semi-famous again by the eponymous iPhone app, Duplo Labyrinth replaces a fixed board created by corporate minions and mass produced out of cheap softwoods with good old ABS. Duplo Labyrinth uses a 20x20 baseplate and standard blocks to create a playing field surrounded by a rim with carefully placed gaps. A lovely wooden ball plucked from a nearby European hammer-the-nail-workbench-type toy replaces the marble in the original game. Carefully holding the board level and tilting from side to side, which is easier for those of us with arms longer than 16", keeps the ball rolling around the obstacles, away from the gaps, and on to the colorful goal zone. Added creativity erupts with on the fly barrier rearrangement. Hilarity ensues when the little one starts rolling the ball off the edge of the board just so, such that it consistently goes under the couch.

Yesterday's run destination: Montana Ave.

Yesterday's menu:
breakfast: waffles
lunch: waffle PB&J
dinner: fish tacos with homemade tortillas and also experimental potato flake-based not-a-tortillas