The Spoon Trick
March 31, 2007
Hello Possums. How many spoons can you balance on your face?
One is relatively easy, as modeled here: 
However, a senior member of our sailing club found it very difficult. No matter how carefully he placed the spoon, and regardless of the angle of his head, he just couldn’t do it! After several attempts over this particular evening, he discovered that polishing his nose with his hanky was necessary before he was able to do it. (A friction thing – his nose just needed a buff).
He was elated when he finally achieved a balanced spoon.
One of the children on another table discovered that he could balance spoons on his ears. Then my second eldest daughter discovered that her cheeks had sufficient friction with which to counteract the force of gravity on the spoon.
When another sailing club member announced that the world record for spoon balancing was six spoons, all of the children and many of the adults set about trying to equal or better this record.
We achieved the record, and everyone cheered! Rosie was even able to take a sip of her drink with all spoons attached.
Six spoons, a world record!!
That is a great picture, I have never really been able to figure that trick out. Maybe I too need to buff my face. But anyways congrats for the world record
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Lol. Yes, great pictures!
My middle child can do the spoon on her nose but she’s never tried the multiple spoons thing.
Her Dad’s dinner-party trick is the glass armonica thing…rubbing a finger over the rim of the glass till it makes a high-picthed musical sound.
Hi menogirl, thanks for dropping by. Let us know if the buffing changed your luck!
Hi earthpal, you have a very talented hubby! Thanks for reminding me about the musical glasses trick, I’ll save that for when the kids start to get fidgety at our next sailing club dinner.
Hi Possums. I’ve noticed that lots of you end up on epossums after searching on ‘world record spoon on nose’ or something similar. I am really curious to know whether you are actually trying for the world record, or whether there is another reason for your search. Please leave a comment here, let us know how you’re going and leave a link to your site if you are blogging on the same topic. Cheers, Bindi.
How did she do that????? I can’t :$
i can do 8. two on each ear, one on each cheek, one on my nose, and one on my chin.
Hi Katrina, I think her skin must have lots of friction…?
Well done Sean. You have set the challenge!
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