Gianter Pick-Up Sticks at Burning Man

Giant Pick-Up Sticks as played at Burning Man - photo, courtesy of Steve Goodman.

Though Steven's proposal wasn't accepted, he, true defender of the playful that he is, did it any way - fabricating his own, accurately-colored set of significantly wooden giant pick-up sticks for the amusement of a desert full of Man Burners.

Yes, of course, you can make them out of lighter things, like PVC pipe or those tubes that come inside of a carpet roll. And you can have lots more or lots fewer if you want. And you can put flags on them and paint them or just keep them plain. And no, people don't actually have to pick them up - it's the standing them up and letting them drop that's the big fun of it all. No matter what you do, you can do it almost anywhere. Since people can see the sticks from far away, it's probably one of the best ways to draw a crowd into a moment of fun and freeing play.

Does it make you think maybe about giant marbles? Giant blocks? Giant jacks? Bowling? Golf?