more Olympic Ideas

Yesterday I had the Activity day girls over for an Olympic celebration! So we did a mini triathlon! First we did a cotton ball race. All you need are cotton balls... and straws. I taped lanes on my floor in different colors to make the coarse. They had to blow the cotton ball to the finish line. I put them into to three teams of two and made it a relay. It turned out really fun. Here is a picture of Raegan doing it! She got really good at moving the cotton ball with her straw.

Then we had a water sport. I gave them each a spoon. There was a small pool filled with water. Each team had to take a turn with their partner with running to the pool, scooping up water into their spoon, and then bringing it back to the cup. There was a line on each cup that the girls had to fill the WATER up to. This took a lot longer than I thought. I should have put the line closer to the bottom of the cup. But the girls had fun.

Next I had the girls put together an obstacle coarse. I had a bucket filled with cones, balls, bubbles, jump ropes, Frisbees, and other things. It was fun to see what the girls came up with for the race. We timed each girl to see how fast they could do it!

After the triathlon we made Large and fluffy tissue paper flowers! in honor of the Chinese hosting the Olympics. (the Chinese love flowers) I printed out the Beijing symbol for the 08 Olympics for them to tie onto the flower to remember the Olympics this year. The girls had so much fun making these. and they were super easy!

Last but not least I made my famous smores on a stick for the treat. But I made them with Orange waffle cookies and red sprinkles to make them look like fire for the Olympic torch. the girls thought it was great!