WIND BOWLING
 
Equipment:  Plastic Cups, Table, and 1 Balloon or Paper Plate
 
Set Up: Place your plastic cups at the edge of your table. Leave an inch space between the table and your cups.
 
How to Play:

• The object of the game is to knock all the cups off a table edge using only the air from the balloon or paper-plate fan.
• You’ll do that by blowing the balloon up and aiming the escaping air towards the empty plastic cups. If you don’t have a balloon you can wave the paper plate like a fan with the fan’s air hitting the cups.
• If using a balloon, you will need to blow the balloon up several times.
• You have 1 minute to knock down as many cups as you can. If you knocked all of your cups down. If there is still time left, set them up again to knock them down.
• When time is up, count how many you knocked down in a minute and record your answer on the padlet.

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BACKBOARD BANK IT
 
Equipment: 5 Large Sock Balls, Laundry Basket or Bucket, A Wall
Set Up :  Roll up the socks to make sock-balls. Place the basket or bucket against the wall. Mark a distance 5’ – 10’ from the basket.
How to Play:

• The object of this game is to score as many points as you can in 1 minute.
• Do that by tossing the sock balls off of the wall and into the basket. You MUST use the wall as your backboard and bank it into the basket.
• You may toss it underhand or overhand.
• After you tossed all 5 of your sock balls, quickly retrieve them and toss again until time is up.
• Score a point for every sock that is banked into the basket and record your number on the padlet.

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KEEP IT UP
 
Equipment: 1or 2 Balloons, Sock Balls, or a Soft Squishy Ball
Set Up :  Clear an indoor or outdoor space. Start with 1 or 2 balloons or balls.
 
How to Play:

• The object is to strike the balloon(s) or ball(s) up using your hands as many times as you can in 1 minute.
• Don’t let it (them) hit the floor.
• On the start signal, strike the balloon(s) upward with your hands and count how many hits you can score in 1-minute.
• If using multiple balloons, alternate striking each balloon. Don’t strike the same balloon twice.
• If the balloon hits the floor, pick it back up and continue. 
• Grades 5-8 must use 2 balloons or balls to challenge yourself.
• When time is up, record the number of times you were able to hit the balloon or ball on the padlet.

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SPOON RELAY
 
Equipment: 1 spoon, 1 object to balance (small ball, marble, small toy) and 2 Items to Mark Start/Check Points (cones, socks, plastic cups, etc.)
 
Set Up: Place an object on the ground for your starting line and the other object about 30 feet away for your turn around point.  At the starting line, get ready by placing the object on the spoon and balance it.
 
How to Play:

•  You have 1 minute to Score points by completing laps with an object balanced on a spoon.
• On the start signal, move carefully from the starting point to the turnaround point and back again.
• If you drop the object, stop walking, place it on the spoon,
  and begin again.  
• Score 1 point for each time you reach the turnaround point and the starting line.  If you go up and back, that is worth 2 points.  
• After your time is up, record the number of points on the padlet.

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Cookie Face
 
Equipment: Cookies or Crackers
 
Set Up: An area that has a super clean floor and if the cookie or cracker falls, it will be able to clean up easy.
 
How to Play:

• The object of this game is to get the cookie or cracker from your forehead to your mouth without using your hands!  This is not easy, but funny to play and watch!
• You have 1 minute to complete this task, don’t worry most of us will fail, but you can still eat the cookies or crackers after the event.
• Easiest way to learn this is watch my video.

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Penny for your Thoughts
 
Equipment:  Stack of 50-75 Pennies and a flat surface
 
Set Up: Spread the pennies out on your flat surface
 
How to Play:

• You are only allowed to use 1 hand for this game.
• This game is for 1 minute.
• On go, using just 1 hand, how many pennies can you stack in a tower before time is up?
• If the tower falls, before time is out, start over and keep stacking.
• After a minute, count how many pennies you were able to stack.
• Record your number, picture, or video on the padlet.

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