One snowy winter, a colleague at school initiated Snow Duck building. Not snowmen, but giant snow ducks on whose backs children could sit. The ducks lasted for many days and the memories much longer than that. Here are some more fun activities that might make us love winter.
Snow Golf
Take some time to smooth out a fairway and a 'green' in the snow. Take an open can and plant it in the snow–this is the hole. For golf balls, use hockey pucks. For clubs, use hockey sticks or real golf clubs.
Find the Snow Flag
This is a great game to play on the playground. Tie a white cloth to the end of a short stick. Give each child a chance to hide it by staking it anywhere within an area with boundaries. Note how long it takes for the rest of the group to find it. Whoever hid the flag that took the longest to find wins the game!Winter Tag*
✓ 5 or more players
✓ Ages 5 and up
✓ Played outdoors in the winter
Have your students ever played line tag in the gym? This is the same thing but outside. It can be played with even a modest layer of snow. Players prepare the course for the game, consisting of a maze of parts in the snow over a field or ice. The parts should be wide enough for one person to run on, about one meter wide.
What follows is a simple game of tag played in lanes in the snow. Players must stay on the paths always, but the person who is ‘it’ may jump from path to path in pursuit of his opponents.
This imaginative modification of tag in the winter could lead players to invent their own unique games for the winter season.
More games like this can be found here.
*Sourced at Thunder Bay Multicultural Association
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