Snowball games for class party-need creative help!

[kinntj]

I'm coordinating our first grader's holiday party. I was looking online and saw some ideas for games that may be fun, just wondering how to set them up.

1st one: snowball fight - use larger cotton balls or larger crafting pom poms and try to get them into each other teams bucket/or small container. I think I'll have the kids throw underhand to prevent kids from accidentally hitting someone in the head. Can't take any from the container, but can pick up from the floor and try again. Any ideas to make this more fun or is it fine?

2nd one: snowball relay with obstacles - rolling pom poms/cotton balls along the floor with pencil or something skinny for challenge and using obstacles. Having trouble coming up with obstacles that would be fun. Any ideas?

3rd one: snowball race with straws - suck the pom pom to the staw and get it to the bucket without dropping and not using your hands. Is there anything that would make this more fun? I'm afraid of kids with asthma having trouble with this. Maybe making it a short run and bring them to various points?

Any help would be great! I love the DIS boarders and all the creativity I find here. I just need some help tweaking. Thank you!

 

[kwitcherkicken99]

1st one: snowball fight - use larger cotton balls or larger crafting pom poms and try to get them into each other teams bucket/or small container. I think I'll have the kids throw underhand to prevent kids from accidentally hitting someone in the head. Can't take any from the container, but can pick up from the floor and try again. Any ideas to make this more fun or is it fine?

Sounds good to me!

2nd one: snowball relay with obstacles - rolling pom poms/cotton balls along the floor with pencil or something skinny for challenge and using obstacles. Having trouble coming up with obstacles that would be fun. Any ideas?

Stretching here, but what about snow hills (rolled up blankets or towels - some kind of rougher surface).

Or "ice" - maybe have the kids "shoot" a cotton ball across some acetate pages into a make-shift hockey goal.

Food Network Challenge last week had a group use finely ground coconut as snow... maybe you could do something with that providing no one is allergic to it.

3rd one: snowball race with straws - suck the pom pom to the staw and get it to the bucket without dropping and not using your hands. Is there anything that would make this more fun? I'm afraid of kids with asthma having trouble with this. Maybe making it a short run and bring them to various points?

What about carrying them on spoons across a 10-12ft space and dumping them into a bucket. First team to fill their bucket to the line wins a special snowball (like a sno cone or something)?

 

[kinntj]

Sounds good to me!

What about carrying them on spoons across a 10-12ft space and dumping them into a bucket. First team to fill their bucket to the line wins a special snowball (like a sno cone or something)?

I think I'll use this one. I'm still working on the prizes for playing, but sno cones won't be allowed. That is a great idea for home parties though. I have a DD6 who's birthday is at the end of March and I may use that. Thanks!

 

[Hannathy]

Not a snow ball but fits the theme. whenever I did a snow or winter theme I played this.

Mitten match up put a whole bunch of mittens in a pile on the floor all mixed up and make sure you have several without a mate and then say go and they route thru the pile trying to make pairs.

you can adapt many balloon games to snowball games by using a white balloon. such as pass the snowball where you pass the balloon 'snowball" between people in a line by passing it between their knees to the next persons knees.

Instead of hot potato freezing snowball using the big pom pom or a tissue paper snowball, don't get caught with the freezing snow ball.

 

[kinntj]

Not a snow ball but fits the theme. whenever I did a snow or winter theme I played this.

Mitten match up put a whole bunch of mittens in a pile on the floor all mixed up and make sure you have several without a mate and then say go and they route thru the pile trying to make pairs. I love this one! I have 10-15 minutes to play games, so if we do a mitten match up and then play a pom pom snowball fight at the end if we have time, that might work.

you can adapt many balloon games to snowball games by using a white balloon. such as pass the snowball where you pass the balloon 'snowball" between people in a line by passing it between their knees to the next persons knees. The balloon won't work in the classroom because it might cause too much noise if it broke.

Instead of hot potato freezing snowball using the big pom pom or a tissue paper snowball, don't get caught with the freezing snow ball. I saw this listed and decided against it because the centers are small, but I like that for a bigger group.

Thank you so much for the great suggestions! I'll use the mitten one for sure. If we get everyone's mittens/gloves in the middle and there's only 6 kids at a time that would be going through 24 pairs of mittens/gloves. Nice and challenging for sure.

 

[merekc]

You might google for games with a ping pong ball. We've played games before blowing them across a finish line. You might also be able to adapt some of the ping pong ball games to using cotton balls.