Despicable Me 2 Week: Evil Minion Target Practice

After seeing

Despicable Me 2,

I KNEW we had to somehow include the...

...the Evil Purple Minions in our week of

learning fun.

So,

I was inspired to create a game

based on the idea of air pressure when I found...

...these air rocket launchers at Wal-Mart

in the clearance section.

I then bought some purple cups at

(where else)

The Dollar Tree...

...and purchased

THESE Minion goggles printouts

to create...

...a cup tower of

Evil Minions.

(I had to color the inside of the goggles

purple since the originals are yellow,

as well as added parts of a fluffy purple pipe cleaner

to the back of the cups.)

The kiddos then practiced the power of air pressure

by firing their launchers at the tower,

trying to knock down as many minions

as they could in the process.

Now,

if I had been on top of my game,

I also would have made the kiddos watch

The Magic School Bus Goes on Air

so we could have deepened our knowledge 

about air pressure.

But alas,

I was not thinking far enough ahead

to secure a couple of this 

Magic School Bus episode.

Hopefully, though, I will soon be able

to purchase...

...The Magic School Bus:

The Complete Series

soon, so I will never find myself missing out

on furthering the kiddos' education.

(In fact, it is on sale right now over on Amazon-

Woo-hoo!)

Since the kiddos did not knock down many minions

with the air rocket launches,

I let them get out the balls

and use their own force to knock down to tower-

just like we did during out

Monsters University Monster Game Day.

In fact,

Little Wild Man found the 

Mike Wazowski cups

we used during that week

and created...

...a gigantic Mike/Minion tower to knock over!

Tomorrow,

I am gonna show ya what rubber gloves

had to do with our

Despicable Me 2 Week,

so please come back and visit!