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Christmas Balloon Race

December 5, 2005 kensapp Leave a comment

Materials
Red, white, and green balloons – one for each person.

Game
Divide the group into teams. Give each person a balloon. On “go,” the first member of each team must blow up his/her balloon but not tie it shut. They must then aim the balloon toward the North Pole (finish line at opposite end of the room) and let them go. If a balloon doesn’t land beyond the finish line, the player goes to the balloon, blows it up and again lets it go toward the finish line. Then the same is repeated to go back to the team. When a balloon crosses the team line, the second team member blows up his or her balloon and lets it go. First team for everyone to compete the relay, wins!

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Christmas Balloon Bust

December 4, 2005 kensapp Leave a comment

Materials:
Red and green balloons and 4 pins.

Activity
Find Open area able to accommodate the entire group sitting in chairs. You may choose to sit them on the floor instead.Station four teams stationed inside a square area. Once a person finds a spot he/she likes, he/she must sit in the chair and is not allowed to leave the seat. Outside the square on each side is a Santa sitting in a chair holding a reindeer antler (pin). There is one Santa for each of the four teams. The objective is to knock balloons toward your team’s North Pole where your Santa will bust them with a reindeer antler (pin.) Red balloons worth 20 points. Green worth 10. When you run out of balloons, tally the scores and declare a winner.

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Candy Cane Tug

December 4, 2005 kensapp Leave a comment

Materials
Miniature size candy canes.

Activity
Played in the manner of breaking the wishbone of a turkey, the objective is to connect the two candy canes at the curved end and pull. The first candy cane to break is eliminated. Continue challenges until only a couple winners remain. You can also do this with regular size candy canes or even have them place it in the mouth for the challenge.

Read about the significance of the Candy Cane to the Birth of Christ in the “Legend of the Candy Cane”

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Candy Cane Relay

December 4, 2005 kensapp Leave a comment

Materials
Miniature size candy canes and toothpicks for each participant.
Divide the participants into two teams. Give each team five small candy canes. On signal, the team members pass their canes to the end of the line (one at a time) and back again using toothpicks stuck in their mouths.

Variations
Using candy canes in their mouth as hooks they must pass candy canes or other items.

Read about the significance of the Candy Cane to the Birth of Christ in the “Legend of the Candy Cane”

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Candy Cane Pick-Up-Sticks

December 3, 2005 kensapp Leave a comment

Materials
Candy canes, wrapped or unwrapped, stacked into a pile. You can use some candy canes of a different color and give them a higher point value. Traditionally, there are Blue Sticks – 50 Points, Green Sticks – 40 Points, Red Sticks – 25 Points, Yellow Sticks – 10 Points. Change this according to the frequency of colors and rarity for your candy canes.

Activity
Played like traditional pick-up-sticks, the objective is to remove one candy cane from the pile without disturbing the remaining candy canes. Use a small stick such as a kebab skewer or chopstick as a tool in picking up the candy canes. The first player picks up candy canes, one at a time, until he causes any other candy cane to move besides the one he is attempting to pick up. The other team then gets its chance to do the same.

Read about the significance of the Candy Cane to the Birth of Christ in the “Legend of the Candy Cane”

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Candy Cane Horseshoes

December 3, 2005 kensapp Leave a comment

Materials
Candy canes and a stick. Be sure the candy canes are wrapped in plastic as they are almost guaranteed to break into a number of small pieces during game play. For indoor games you can either drive a nail into a flat piece of wood or turn a table or stool over and use one of the legs as the post.

Activity
In the manner of playing horseshoes, the objective is to take turns to toss the candy cane at an upright stick. Place a stick vertically somewhere in the ground. Then participants take turns throwing candy canes (underhand) at it. A game is divided into rounds and each round constitutes the pitching of two candy canes by each contestant. In each round, the one with the highest score goes first.The objective of the game is to get your candy cane closest.

Scoring
A candy cane must be within six (6) inches of the stake to score. A candy cane that first strikes the ground outside the target area or rebounds from behind the stake cannot be scored, nor can any candy cane thrown from an invalid position. A “ringer” (3 points) is a candy cane that encircles the stake so that a straight edge could touch the two prongs without touching the stake. The closest cane from each pair scores 1 point. A leaning shoe has no value over one touching the stake. The points are scored according to the position of the shoes at the round’s end, that is, after the contestants have each thrown two candy canes. This means it is possible for the second player to knock the opponents candy canes either away or closer to the stake.

Read about the significance of the Candy Cane to the Birth of Christ in the “Legend of the Candy Cane”

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Candy Cane Hockey

December 3, 2005 kensapp 1 Comment

Materials
Miniature size candy canes, candy goal markers, and a candy hocky puck.

Activity
Make a goal at each end of a table using markers attached to the table… These markers can be a piece of candy or even candy canes stuck to the table with some blue tack adhesive. Make the goal posts about 4 inches apart. Use a jelly bean for a hockey puck. (It moves but doesn’t roll off the table to easily) Using the candy canes as hockey sticks try to shoot the jelly bean through the net of the opponent. The opponent is allowed to block the shots, but only with the candy canes. If at any time a body part touches the bean or your opponent, it’s an instant disqualification. The first to a set number of points wins. You can also determine the winner by who has the most points after a predetermined amount of time.

Read about the significance of the Candy Cane to the Birth of Christ in the “Legend of the Candy Cane”

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Candy Cane Connection

December 3, 2005 kensapp

Materials
Miniature size candy canes broken in half.

Activity
Use this game to break your group up into pairs as a mixer. Mix up the halves of the candy canes and hand them out to participants. When everyone has arrived, have participants try to find the other half of their candy canes!

Read about the significance of the Candy Cane to the Birth of Christ in the “Legend of the Candy Cane”

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Top Turkey Artist

November 24, 2005 kensapp 2 Comments

Materials
Sheet of paper and a tray or hard cover book for eack participant.

Activity
Everyone places a tray or large book on top their head with a piece of blank paper on it. Participant are to draw on the page resting on the top of their head, without looking, according to the instructions given.

Instructions might be
1. Draw a circle for the body of the Turkey.
2. Draw the turkey’s head and neck on top of the body.
3. Draw two feet for the turkey.
4. Add the turkey’s beak and waddle.
5, Add the Turkey’s Tail feathers
At the end of instructions, everyone removes the pictures from their heads. It can be very funny to see what they have drawn.

Scoring options:
2 points for every line that crosses
1 point if your turkey’s feet are touching the body
1 point if your turkey’s head is attached to the body.
1 point for feather that is ON the turkey.

Award the person with the greatest number of points the prize!

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Tearable Turkey

November 24, 2005 kensapp Leave a comment

Materials
Sheet of brown construction paper for each participant.

Activity
Participants must rip a sheet of construction paper into the shape of a turkey — behind their back. They are not allowed to look at their creation until it is complete. Hang the works of art up for everyone to judge. Give prizes for the best-looking turkeys.

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