State Fair

One of the days during my internship, we put on a state fair for the seniors at the center. We had them buy fake tickets, play carnival games, judge the animals they had "brought", eat typical fair foods, and learn about different fairs. I was in charge of coming up with a game for the seniors to play that would remind them of their childhood. I decided to have them play a game of marbles using a sheet over the pool table. They could all remember when they were younger playing a game of marbles in the dirt. They told me about how they would play for hours on end. They also said that they used to play in a way that the winner would keep all the marbles that they were able to knock out of the circle. They had a lot of fun playing marbles, and were able to flick the marbles fairly well.