"Snowball" Fight

It's difficult to get into the Christmas spirit when you are wearing shorts and short sleeves. So I decided to make a "snowball" fight for the kids. Of course we didn't have real snow so I used cotton balls and white feathers. I put a blue line (painter's tape) to divide the room and spread the "snow" on both sides. Each child had to stay on their own side for the entire game.

All I told them at the beginning was you are going to throw the things on your side to the other side. The first one to get their side free from "snow" wins. They started slowly picking things up one at a time and throwing them over.

It didn't take long till they figured out that picking up a lot and throwing it all together was a much better strategy. Eventually we made the rule you could only throw 2 things at a time which makes the game last a really, really long time. It's easy to clean up, the kids had fun, it develops gross motor skills, problem solving, oh and I didn't have to entertain them for an hour!