Healthy Home - Learning Game - Indoor Blizzard

Found this from Healthy Homes that I got from HeadStart.  It was titled:

Move, Play and Learn at Home
Indoor Blizzard


Get Ready:

• Space:  Indoor open space
• Stuff:   10 homemade crunched paper balls; laundry baskets, boxes or pillows
• Time:   After school or after dinner with the family

Get Set:

• Put all of the balls in the middle of the playing area
• Place laundry baskets, boxes, or pillows around the room creating a circle of targets. Place them far enough away to make tossing to them a challenge, but close enough to hit.

Go:

• Ask your child if he/she knows what a blizzard is ... what does it look like, what does it feel like? Tell them they are going to make a blizzard by tossing the balls to all of the targets.
• Ask your child to toss the balls at the targets.  After tossing at one target, pick up another ball and toss at a new target; continue tossing at different targets until all 10 balls have been tossed.
• Collect the balls and repeat.
• Challenge your child to do the task quickly and then to slow down and focus more on hitting the target. Challenge him or her to toss underhand and then overhand.

Did You Know?


Children can learn math skills while practicing tossing skills. Make the connection to math by counting the number of targets they hit each time. Talk about greater than and less than, each time they repeat the entire game.