Now that the cold winter weather has officially arrived, kids will be spending more time indoors and will be needing new things to do! I don’t know about your kids, but my kids love crafting and creating new things when they are stuck inside. Today we made this really fun Snowflake Cup Ball Toss Game and it has been a big hit! I consider anything that gets played with for over 20-30 minutes a huge hit in our house! And the best part was, we had everything that we needed for the game on hand and you probably do to!
Snowflake Cup Ball Toss Game Tutorial
Materials Needed for your Snowflake Cup Ball Toss Game:
- White Paper
- Scissors
- Tape
- Pencil
- Plastic Cups (we happened to have blue ones which look really fun)
- Lightweight ball such as a ping pong ball
Instructions for Creating your Snowflake Toss Game:
Grab your supplies and spread out! The kids will definitely be able to help create this game with you. First, grab your paper and your pencil. Sketch out a snowflake (if you need to, you could always print a snowflake template to use as your guide). After you have sketched one out, layer several pieces of paper under the top sheet. This will prevent you from having to cut one out at a time!
After you have cut the snowflakes out (we had about 10 cups so we cut out 10 snowflakes), get you child to help you tape one snowflake on each cup. When you and your child are done taping, it’s time to set up your game! We turned over a few cups and laid them down on the table to create a base layer for our game. Next, we put a piece of tape on the bottom of several cups and placed them right side up on the base layer. Putting tape on the bottom will help them from falling over when they get hit with a ball.
After you have them lined up, your child is ready to play. The cups can be placed on the floor or on a table. Grab a ball (we have several balls around the house so we grabbed a light weight plastic ball) and try to toss the ball into the cups! You can make it challenging by backing up a little farther from the cups each round!
What kind of indoor activities are you planning for this winter? Do you think your child would like this snowflake cup ball toss game?