Daily Idea #225: “Do You Wanna Build a Snowman?”

For most of our daily ideas, prep is absolutely minimal because I know how busy we all are and how nice it is to just have an idea and tell the kids, “Here’s something to do. Go!” With that said, today’s daily idea requires a tiny bit of preparation.

We are going to build a snowman, but in the process of building said snowman, we are going to race. Some people call these “lines”; some people call them “suicides” (but I’ll explain in a bit)

First, to set up, I am going to cut out pieces for the snowman based on how many players I have. Each player will have 3 circles of differing sizes (think small, medium, larger) cut from white construction paper, 3 smaller circles from black construction paper, a long triangle from orange construction paper, and a black top hat. Feel free to add more parts of the snowman (eyes, arms, etc…)

Then I am going to set them up at different intervals away from the start. To play, each player has to run from the start to the first item closest to them. Once they have picked up that item, they race back to the start. Then they go to the next item which is farther away and retrieve that. Repeat until all snowman parts are collected. Once back at the starting line with all the snowman parts, build your snowman!