Snowball Game

An indoor Snowball Fight!

Divide the girls into two teams and provide each team with a pile of newspapers, preferably tabloid size. (NOTE - count the pages first - each team needs the same number of pages) and a couple of buckets, boxes or similar containers (these don't necessarily need to be the same size.)

Mark off a line at each end of the hall a short distance away from the back wall, or you could consider letting the teams build a barricade of chairs etc., it all depends on your particular circumstances. Send the teams to the opposite ends of the hall with their newspapers and buckets.

On a given signal, the teams should begin to prepare their ammunition : tear the tabloid sheets (Express, Mail, Sun - that sort of size) into two separate pages (broadsheets eg. the Guardian, Times etc.. are better torn in 4 pieces) and crumple each sheet tightly to form a "snowball," and place in one of the buckets or boxes for use.

When all the newspapers (give them plenty!) are turned into snowballs, the teams can commence firing at their opponents. They can use any snowballs which come in from the opposing team, but these MUST cross their defence line, they can't go out and retrieve any shortfalls. They also can't start to fire back until they have made all their newspapers into snowballs themselves.

Play until the point of boredom, or time runs out, or for a set length of time : if you must have a winner, the losing team is the one which, when the final whistle blows, has the MOST snowballs behind its lines. (They will soon realise it pays to make their snowballs well in the first place, as they will fly further and better and can be aimed more accurately. )