#8 Flour Power

At Michael's family reunion we volunteered to run a "flour war", as suggested by Benson.  He'd done it before at a youth activity and it sounded like so much fun.

It's easy.

1.  Go to Payless and ask for nylon stockings for trying on shoes.  Ask for about 25 and they'll likely give you a whole box rather than count them out.  A whole box had about 100 footies.  SCORE.

2.  Fill each stocking with 1/4 to 1/2 cup of flour, preferably weevle infested or grandma's seriously outdated food supply.  Don't use your actual flour from your food supply.  That would be pretty lame.

3.  Knot the end of the stocking.  Repeat about 100 times.

4.  You can play different versions but we just played with no rules, like a water balloon fight.  You could reuse flour packs off the ground and they were good for a good 5-10 throws each.

It only took Alex about 3 seconds to understand the game.

 

We had about 50 people participate, young and old.

It looks like a war zone, complete with haze.

It only lasts like 10 minutes, but a memorable 10 minutes.

It pit sisters against brothers.

Tip:  Close your mouth when you laugh or it'll get caked.

We had a little rule about no faces getting hit.  Uh huh.

The dads and teenage boys were favorite targets.

Flour War Survivors

From a distance we don't look too bad.  It brushed off easily.

Tip #2:  I shouldn't have worn black pants.  My bum was targeted heavily.  Pictures withheld.