Winter Fun Kit Instructions and Inventory
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Instructions and inventory list A partnership between: WHAT IS A WINTER FUN KIT? A winter fun kit is filled with items that can be used to play and be active in many different ways! Included is a list of ideas and activities you can do with just the contents of the kit. Many of the items are versatile and can be used in countless different ways. We have supplied lots of ideas here but your imagination is the only limit! Many of the activities can be done indoors or outdoors, and in either snowy or dry conditions. So grab a friend or head out by yourself to have some winter fun! WWW.LETHBRIDGESPORTCOUNCIL.CA/KITS WWW.LETHBRIDGEPLAYS.CA/WINTER WINTER FUN KIT INVENTORY Balls - (assorted sizes) 16 Balance board x 1 Bean bags x 12 Bird watching card x 2 INSTRUCTIONS Buckets – large x 1 Buckets – small x 2 1.Play as many of the games and Clothespins x 36 activities as you can with items in the Cornhole board x 1 kit. Some activities will require you Fake snowballs x 15 to use items you have around the house. Discs x 4 2.Many activities can be done indoors HIIT Instructions and outdoors. Hoops x 8 3.When it's time to return the kit, Launcher x 1 please make sure the items are in Marbles in a bag x 48 good repair, clean and dry. Plastic cups - small x 17 4.Check the inventory list to make sure Plastic cups - large x 3 everything is accounted for. Pool noodle x 2 5.Return the kit on your designated Pylons x 8 day, so we have time to disinfect the Rope x 4 lengths items before it is scheduled to go to Scavenger hunt cards x 2 the next home. Snowman gear (scarf, hat) 6.Have fun with it!!! Velcro markers - 15 We would love if you shared with us, some pictures of yourselves having fun with the kit, so we can share them on our social media and to help promote the kits. Please email photos to [email protected] Here is a list of games with instructions included in this booklet. This is not an exhaustive list, as there T I are endless ways to use the materials of this kit. K Balance and Wobble N Balls - the Best Boredom Buster U Bean Bag Toss F Build a Fort R E Build an Inukshuk with Ice T Classic Marbles N Cornhole I Cup Construction W Do You Wanna Build a Snowman? E Family Friendly 7 Min HIIT H Fox and Goose T Freeze Dance Party H Hoop Lasso Challenge T I Hot and Cold W Make Homemade Snow Penguin Walk Y Skipping Rope A L Snow Blower P Snow Track Marble Race Snowball Juggling O T Snowball Knockout Snowball Pong S Y Snowball Toss A Winter Bird Watching W Winter Scavenger Hunt WHAT CAN WE PLAY WITH THESE THINGS? SNOW TRACK MARBLE RACE Materials Needed: Marbles and mittens! There’s nothing quite as exciting to teens as cheering for inanimate objects. Okay, maybe there is, but you’re about to notch their excitement level all the way up with the wildly engaging and team building Snow Marble Race. Carve out a winding and weaving channel in the snow about three marbles wide. Then assign team names to various marble colors. They’ll cheer their teams on all the way down pushing and slipping as they try to see who’s winning. You can get creative with bridges, tunnels, side trails, and jumps. Make sure you test it first. It’ll be really sad if all the marbles get hung up early. DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN? Materials Needed: Snow Toque, scarf, buttons and arms (provided) carrot for the nose (not provided) Direction to Setup and Play: Wait for a snowy day... Roll the snow into balls to build your snowman Have fun dressing it up! Take a photo and email it to [email protected] CLASSIC MARBLES This is the easiest of marble games to play. Draw a playing circle (use your finger in dirt or carpet or use sidewalk chalk on the concrete or use light string to form the circle) and dump all your regular sized marbles into the circle. Players use their larger marbles and take turns bouncing or rolling them into the circle to try to knock marbles out of bounds. Any marble that is displaced from the circle is theirs to keep for the game. The game is over when there are no more marbles in the circle and the winner is whoever collected the most. WHAT CAN WE PLAY WITH THESE THINGS? MAKE HOMEMADE SNOW What do you do when you are dying to play in the snow, but there isn't any? You make your own! Begin by pouring 4 cups of frozen baking soda into a large bowl or container. (Freezing the baking soda isn't necessary, but it makes the "snow" extra icy & cold). Slowly add cold water and mix, slowly adding more water and mixing until the desired consistency is reached. As you mix the water into the baking soda the most amazing fluffy snow will form! You can incorporate toys into the snow, like cars, diggers, and figurines. BUILD AN INUKSHUK WITH ICE Inukshuk is pronounced In-OOK-Shook which is an Inuit word meaning “image of man.” They are life-like figures of stone, built by the Inuit and they stand along Canada’s most northern shores. Materials Needed: food colouring, frozen, colored water in an assortment of containers and buckets Remove the frozen, colored ice blocks from the molds, start stacking them in interesting ways, finding the balance points! BEAN BAG TOSS Materials Needed: Targets Bean bags Direction to Setup and Play: Divide the bean bags evenly between the players Arrange the targets so they get further away as the points go up Take turns throwing your beanbags at the targets When all beanbags are thrown, add up the points. Can be played indoors or outdoors. Remember, if the beanbags get wet be sure they are completely dry before putting away. WHAT CAN WE PLAY WITH THESE THINGS? FREEZE DANCE PARTY This activity is what it sounds like: a freeze dance party. You play music, and when the music stops, players freeze. You can mark off personal space using floor tape or cones, so players have physically distanced boundaries. CORNHOLE Cornhole is a game where players take turns throwing bags of corn kernels at a raised platform (board) with a hole in the far end. Today the bags aren't usually filled with corn, and the boards often have multiple holes. SETUP - Mark a throwing line 5-10 paces from the cornhole target, depending on the age/ability of your players. Prop the back of the target against something sturdy (furniture for a steeper incline, or on a toy for a smaller incline) or put pylons through the holes in the top corners. RULES FOR PLAY - (or you can make your own rules based on the age/ability of players) The bean bag toss game can be played with 2 or 4 players. Each team gets 4 bean bags to throw. Each player throws from behind the marked line. This is the foul line. The player can't pass the line or the throw does not count and the bag is removed from play. Each team alternates shots beginning with the team that had scored last. A bag that is tossed in play and knocks another bag off or in the hole is legal. SCORING - Points are scored when a player has a bag on the board or in the hole. A point scored on the board is equal to 1 point, a point scored in the hole is equal to 3 points. Game is played until one team scores 21 points. A team can win by a white wash which is 11 - 0. WHAT CAN WE PLAY WITH THESE THINGS? BUILD A FORT Blanket forts are easy to build and provide countless hours of fun. You can make your fort with everyday household items like blankets, sheets, chairs, and curtain rods Materials Needed: Some sheets and clothes pins. How to build: Start by building a fort frame. A great base is 4 kitchen chairs with their backs to each other and a space in between. Then, close off your fort to the outside world by draping blankets over it. Use the clothespins to hold things in place. Throw in a few pillows and blankets for added coziness, for a fun afternoon. HOT AND COLD Choose one player to be the hunter, and have that person step into a different room for a minute. Hide a small item (like an indoor snowball) somewhere in the room. Call the hunter back in, and have them start searching for the object by walking around the room. If the person is far away from the object, the other players say “cold.” When the hunter is close to the object, players say “hot.” Players can use various words according to the degree of hot- or cold-ness – icy, freezing, frigid, blazing, warm, scorching, etc. CUP CONSTRUCTION Talk about easy prep. Just provide a big pack of cups, and get creative! Challenge players to build the tallest cup tower in teams, or just give them free building time. It’s amazing what they can come up with given a little free time and some cups. You can incorporate anything else in the kit too! WHAT CAN WE PLAY WITH THESE THINGS? SNOWBALL PONG Set up buckets (or cups for added difficulty) at a chosen distance in front of each player.