Snowman Blitz is a snow-themed cooperation game for physical education that will have your students communicating, brainstorming, working, and laughing together as they play!
An open playing area with a workshop hoop for each of the six teams along one side, and a marked construction zone at the opposite end.
Be the first team to build a complete snowman in the construction zone.
Student should be careful when running through the playing area when all of the materials are scattered.
Students should never throw materials at one another.
Students should keep their heads up when running in the playing area.
Builds allow you to increase the game's complexity, one layer at a time.
The teacher divides the class into six teams. Each team is assigned a colour and a home base, known as their workshop base, and lines up behind it.
The teacher places 36 cones in the playing area and hides a Builder's List Item Card under each one. The Builder's List Item Cards are available as a free download on ThePhysicalEducator.com. Laminating the cards keeps them from being destroyed and lets you play this game in the snow.
Once all the item cards are hidden, the teacher gives the signal to start.
Working relay style, each team attempts to find all of the item cards in their team's colour as quickly as possible. If a running player checks under a cone and does not find a card in their colour, they replace the cone and run back to their workshop hoop to tag the next player in line. If they do find one, they bring the card back to their workshop hoop.
You can set a time limit for this round, or play until one team has found all of their item cards, or until every team has collected all of theirs.
Each team reviews their Builder's List now that they have collected all of the cards. While they do, the teacher scatters all of the equipment needed to build the six snowmen throughout the playing area.
On the teacher's signal, teams work relay style to gather all of the materials on their Builder's List. A running player may only gather one piece of equipment at a time and must collect equipment in their team's colour, unless the teacher says otherwise.
Play continues until each team has collected all of their equipment.
Now that each team has their Builder's List and all of their materials, it is time to build some snowmen.
The teacher marks an area at the opposite side of the playing area, designated as the construction zone.
Continuing to work relay style, each team attempts to build their snowman inside the construction zone. As in the previous build, a running player may only carry one piece of equipment at a time.
Play ends once each team has built their snowman. Teams are then invited to go and look at all of the snowmen that have been built, and to give compliments on other teams' work.
Print the game sheet, leave it on your desk, and your sub has everything they need: the diagrams, the builds in order, what to say, and what to watch for. This one is $4. #PhysEdU Plus members get all 39, free forever, for $49 a year.
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