We Are The Champions!

Gold Medals!

This is a fun and easy craft for your little ones to get into the Olympic Spirit. You can make them before doing your own mini Olympics ( see below) and then have your very own medal ceremony!

Gather your materials. You will need some cardboard ( an old mac and cheese box is perfect) some gold sparkly paint, double stick tape, a paintbrush, some ribbon or streamers, and some markers for decorating the medals.
Draw two identical circles on the card board.
Have your child decorate the circle with crayons or markers.
Add a few globs of paint.
Cover the two circles with paint and let dry.
Cut the circles out.
Using double stick tape ( glue would work too- just let it dry) tape the streamer onto the back of one circle , make sure the loop is large enough to make it over your child’s head. Add another layer of tape and the front side of the medal.
Have a very adorable child who likes things around their necks model it for you 🙂

Mini Olympics!

My past as a daycamp leader was in full force today as I toted a bunch of balls to the park to host our very own playground Olympics! We had three short but fun events: Rhythmic Gymnastics, Track and Field and Basket Ball. Here is how we did it!

Rhythmic Gymnastics : To make our ribbons I used a Take and Toss straw and threaded the ribbon through then tied a simple knot. It doesn’t wreck the straw that way and you can even re use the ribbon!

We shook the ribbons high, low fast and slow!

Track and Field: I used a some left over streamers from Valentines day and tied each end to a small tree at the playground. We lined the boys up and bribed them with cookies to run, turns out the bribe wasn’t needed at all- they repeated the race again and again without asking once for the cookies ( which was good cause we needed them to convince the two to get back in their strollers at the end of the day! ) .

Basket Ball: Grab a pop up hamper, and all the balls you have. I hung the hamper on a tree support because it was windy, but do what works for you. This was such a hit, they kept going and going!