Stick Bomb

Our friends from Indonesia were talking to us about games children play.   We mentioned many things, one of which was dominoes, specifically the kind you set up in a long chain and knock down.   They were familiar with them and then asked if we knew of “Stick Bomb”, saying it was popular in their family.

I didn’t know what it was and after a brief Internet search that didn’t show what they were talking about we dropped the subject and I planned to look it up in more detail later.   Stick Bomb is the interleaving of tongue depressors in a woven pattern such that when you release the first one, they all pop, causing a wave of popsicle sticks to go flying across the room.

Two days later and we’re shopping in Five Below, looking through the game section when Maromi came over to me with a box saying, “this is it, this is Stick Bomb!”   It wasn’t called stick bomb, but that’s exactly what it was.    We bought it and after dinner their son set up the seventy-five sticks and let them fly.  

It was impressive, considering they were only tongue depressors.  

The Big Boy Update:  My son had his first appointment with the occupational therapist today.   She asked me afterwards if we were firm about him being left-handed.   I told her we didn’t care either way, he should do what works best for him.   We have homework to observe some things he does to see what his mainly dominant hand is.

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:    In the process of all getting organized to watch the Stick Bomb go off tonight, my daughter stepped right in the middle of the run, causing it to go off prematurely.  Thankfully, Ryuichi was willing to set it up for us again.   The second time we all watched it pop together.