Winter Blast! Part 2

    "We'll just have to move everything inside." The super storms that pummeled the Midwest were heading our way. Although they'd be much weaker and unlikely to form tornadoes, they would bring heavy rains and cold gusty winds making it impossible to have inflatables and games outside. So on Saturday our children's director, Kay, canceled the inflatable obstacle course and began planning to do all the games inside. The problem was that we were expecting fifty kids, but only had access to one room for the first hour of the event or until the adult Sunday school classes let out. We ended up picking a couple of games that could be played with little room to start off with and singing some extra worship songs.

Here are some of the pictures...

Judging the snowman making contest

Frozen pancake toss

"Snowshoe" relay

Introducing the Bible point

Learning about how God created light with flash paper

Teams line up to receive their medals

     We used this event to launch in to our next curriculum series about creation. After the games we brought everyone back to the main room. The youth praise band led a few fun songs, and Director Kay presented the Bible story while one of our volunteers performed the science experiment. Over all it was a great day even with having to use our rain contingency plan.

What worked;

• Sending out postcards seemed to work; a lot of people were talking about them.
• The decorating really impressed both the kids and parents.
• The games were a big hit. We found and modified most of our games from this website, except for the Frozen Pancake Toss which came from kidology.

What we learned:

• We need more people at the registration table.
• We need to do better at communicating the bad weather plan.

This event went over really well and me might do it a gain next year. Hope this post gives you guys some great ideas. I would love to hear your comments.