Our Winter Olympics

Since we have been watching lots of the winter olympic games, I decided to have an olympic week at our house. I work best when I have a theme to plan activities around. Here is what we did.
Olympic torches - paper towel tubes covered with foil & stuffed with tissue paper - easy! Of course we had to have races around the house with these.
Olympic rings - we made some out of painted toilet paper tubes & these out of pipe cleaners. I got the ideas here. The boys are tossing mini marshmallows into them here which proved to be kind of difficult, but delicious!

Flags - Eli and I made flags of different countries and hung them up on string in our kitchen. He loved this. My 2 year old would not have gotten into this activity, so we did it without him.Olympic medals - we painted cardboard circles with gold, silver, & bronze paint (they loved this!) and hot glued ribbon to the back of them (I did this). Then we hosted our version of the winter olympic games!

Ice cube/puck hockey in the garage

Cardboard cross country skiing through the house!

Ski jumping. This is a favorite activity, but this time we measured distances!
Finally, our obstacle course which consisted of: snowball throw (cotton balls), sled pull, figure 8s, polar bear plunge (stick your hand in bucket of ice water for 5 seconds) - this was my 2 year old's favorite, and the medal throw (paper plates painted gold, silver & bronze)
Lastly, we had our medal ceremony. They each stood on a stool & I presented them with a gold, silver, & bronze medal. Then my husband busted out with the national anthem - they loved it. Eli immediately asked if they could do that part again - with us singing! It was so cute. I never imagined that would be their favorite part - they looked so proud! We had a lot of fun doing all our activities and I think they learned something too. Bonus was the sense of pride they each caught on too! I love these two!


Tara