I haven’t posted for a while. I’ve been spending less time geeking and more time with my kids. So here’s a kid-related post.

Today we made “Comet Balls”. We saw something similar to these at a school fair and Kai really wanted some. So I got some tennis balls and some long colourful socks to make the tails (I could only get toe-socks. Long story, don’t ask. They do look cute with the little toes on the front though).

Making them couldn’t be simpler. Just shove the tennis ball into the sock and secure it with an elastic band. Kai could do it all by himself.

You can throw them quite well when you hold the tail and twirl them. We played a game where Kai and I would try to throw them into a bucket at a distance of two metres. Here’s some photos: