How to Build a Card Pyramid

Rainy afternoon. Your friends are away, there's no one to call and you don't know what to do with yourself. Don't turn on television quite yet. Grab a deck of cards and go all Eyptian with them. Build yourself a pyramid. All you need is a deck of cards that you won't mind bending out of shape.

Instructions

1. Get a deck of cards and clear a sturdy table to work on.

2. Bend one card vertically in half. Put that card on table.

3. Use as many cards as you choose and repeat step 2.

4. For every two cards that you have bent, place another card horizontally over the top of those cards.

5. Take another card and fold it like you did in Step 2. Place that card on top of the horizontal cards.

6. Continue until all the cards that have points are covered with horizontal cards.

7. Repeat Steps 2, 4, and 5 until you come to a perfect point of one card. Your pyramid is finished.

Tips & Warnings

• Be careful not to breathe to hard and especially not to breathe directly on your tower.

• Be patient, keep trying, do not give up easily. This is a project that takes time and a lot of patience!

• Be careful not to shake the table or surface that you have chosen to work on.