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Snowblowers

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Race against time and competitors to puff your ball to the finish line.

What You Need
  • Large paper cups
  • Small prizes (candy canes, colored pencils, stickers...)
  • Table
  • Ping-Pong ball
  • Paper towel tubes
Instructions
  1. To set up, hang three large paper cups with tape off one side of a table, so that the cup openings are level with the table's surface. Fill each cup halfway with small prizes and clear away any chairs so players have an open pathway at both sides of the table.

  2. Give the first two players paper towel tubes and explain that when you place a Ping-Pong ball in front of each of them, they must blow through the tubes like a snowblower. (Point out that a gentle breath is all it takes to get the "snowball" rolling.)

  3. Each contestant will have 15 seconds to direct the ball across the table and into one of the paper cups; if the ball goes over the edge first, that player's turn is over. Each winner gets to pick one prize from the cup -- and the playing continues until each cup is empty.

Tips:
Have the kids decorate their paper towel tubes with construction paper, stickers, ribbon, drawings, etc.
Decorate the table with confetti, streamers and other items that will also blow around when the races begin.
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