We had so much fun with our New Year’s celebration and you all seemed to enjoy the post so much, I’ve decided to make a monthly series for you with activities for the family. This month, with it being winter and all, I came up with the idea for us to have a family snowball fight.
In order to get in on the fun, you will need pom poms…lots of white pom poms. I would think that if you wanted to skip the step of making your own pom poms, you could buy some packages of the small fuzzy pom poms that stores sell. If you chose that option, just know that they will get lost. We lost some of ours, which are much larger than those pom poms, and still don’t know where they are…maybe behind the bookcase or TV…not really sure…don’t really care.
For our family fun night, I used this (affiliate links) pom pom maker
and this pom pom maker.I made 2 of each size of pom pom for each family member. Since we have a family of 4, we each had 8 pom poms of 4 sizes for a total of 32 white pom poms. This is a super easy task to do while watching TV. I completed plenty while reading with my Kindle in my lap. It does take some time, but it isn’t hard and it doesn’t require much concentration. If you need it, I have a tutorial on how to make pom poms.
and this pom pom maker.
I made 2 of each size of pom pom for each family member. Since we have a family of 4, we each had 8 pom poms of 4 sizes for a total of 32 white pom poms. This is a super easy task to do while watching TV. I completed plenty while reading with my Kindle in my lap. It does take some time, but it isn’t hard and it doesn’t require much concentration. If you need it, I have a tutorial on how to make pom poms.The different sizes really don’t matter and aren’t necessary, I had just thought having different sizes would be fun. I liked the 2 sizes in the clover large pom pom maker linked to above the most for our fight. You do need to know that they use the most yarn, so you may need 2 skeins of yarn rather than one.
This is my living room on a typical evening (well minus the toys and dolls that usually liter the floor).
I thought it would be so much more fun to have our indoor, no real snow, snowball fight with ‘forts.’ We rearranged the furniture to accomplish this. You can skip this step if you want to, but it sure did add to the fun.
My living room, transformed and ready for the fun and mayhem of our family snowball fight.
Pumpkin and Snowflake. They may look all cute and sweet, but let me tell you, they take their snowball fights pretty serious! I’m pretty sure they were the winners, though we weren’t really keeping track.
The girls in the PJ’s, fighting with Daddy. They chose the big couch for their ‘fort.’ It was parent’s vs. kids and the kids totally won (see I’ll already admit it)!
We just started playing, trying to hit each other with the snowballs from behind our forts. The forts fell and had to be readjusted…which would be the perfect time for the kids to attack us with tons of snowballs. Once we were out of snowballs, we had to run to the center or behind another persons fort to get more snowballs. Usually, us grown ups got blasted with snowballs when we tried to get more…which kind of worked because then there were more snowballs to get. 🙂
The girls took to hoarding keeping large stashes of snowballs and got quite mad if Mr. T or I tried to get back behind their fort to steal them…but our motto was, “All’s fair in love and snowball fights!”
This is the point where I’m trying to get more snowballs (I may possibly have stolen a few…) and the girls are attacking me. I’m also laughing and having so much fun I can hardly defend myself…but I managed to keep hold of the snowballs! This whole activity was so much fun!
This is the moment during the insanity that we realized we totally adopted the right cat for Christmas! Our new cat(Pepper) had fun and even joined in the craziness. He fits right in!
We all had so much fun! I highly recommend this activity for your family. It was very inexpensive. I bought one skein of yarn. It was on sale for $2.50. (I already had the pom pom makers and you don’t have to have them, you can make pom poms the old fashioned way if you prefer.) Super fun for super cheap = Love, Love, Love!
Please pardon the weird expression on my face, but here we are all sweaty and tired after our fun snowball fight.
To have your own family snowball fight, you will need:
- Lots of pom poms snowballs
- Forts for your snowball fight
- You could make rules if you feel the need. Our rules were that there really weren’t any rules. Just have fun throwing snowballs at the family (and don’t destroy the house).
As I said already, we had so much fun with our family snowball fight! I’m so glad that I blog and came up with the idea and put it all together for you all because we totally benefited.
I hope you and your family give it a try and have as much or more fun than we had!
More Family Fun for You:
You guys are nutty! Whatever happened to good old pillow fights? Actually, I love the snowball fight idea! Can we do that when I come? You guys are great!
Yes, well nuttiness runs in the family, right Dad? Ummm, we liked the snowball fight better, no one got hurt. There were no tears invloved. If you want to make more snowballs, we can have another fight. Pepper has had too much fun playing with the snowballs and not many remain!
Love you,
KC
Love this!! we used to do all kinds of fun silly stuff like this… need tostart doing it with the grands.. thanks for giving me ideas!!
Oh, how fun to get to do these kinds of things with your Grandkids! Have fun!
KC
I love your family!
lol! Thanks!
KC
so cute! I’d be afraid of stuff breaking, but I guess they’re soft enough not to do much harm!
It was fun! Nothing got broken at all. The snowballs are too soft. We did move lamps off to the side to make sure they didn’t get knocked to the floor and broken that way {not that that has happened before or anything ;-)}.
KC
Oh my gosh, how fun! I was smiling the whole time. I have two boys and I’m sure they would destroy my hubby and I at this but so worth the try!!! Thanks for posting looks so fun 🙂
Have a great night!
Shelly
It was fun! I’m sure your boys would destroy you and your husband, but I am also pretty sure you all would have a great time!
Have fun!
KC
That’s a fun idea! It’s been unseasonably warm here in Colorado, so this may be only kind of snowball fight we can have. I’m pinning to try with our 3 year old. Thanks!
It sure was fun! Yes, we don’t get much snow here, so this works well. Have fun!
KC
What a fun idea! Pretty safe too, lol.
Yes, both safe and fun! Great combo!
KC
Saw your link at Chef In Training’s party … This is SoOo FUN !! Thanks for sharing! Pinning 😉
~Brenda @ChattingOverChocolate.blogspot.com
It sure was fun! Thanks for stopping by.
KC
Marvelous!! And you get to stay warm also. This kind of thing would be fun with my granddaughter, too. Would love to have you link this to What to do Weekends Party on my blog. This idea is unique. Take care, following on facebook and twitter.. Linda
https://twosucculentsisters.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-to-do-weekends-3.html
Thanks! I bet your granddaughter would have a great time with this as well.
KC
Fun times!
It sure was!
KC
Love the idea, you probably find them all over the house! I used to find my boys nerf pellets everywhere! I just started a new link party and would love if you would come on over and share your post or social media sites. https://designeddecor.com/talkin-about-thursday-link-party4/
DeDe@DesignedDecor
Thanks! Yes, we have been finding them all over the house! Of course, the cat has been helping them make it to all kinds of places.
KC
I love moments like these. I found you at the Finished Friday Party and I’ve become your newest follower on GFC. I’m also hosting a party this week and I would love for you to come by and share this at my party – Fluster’s Creative Muster.
https://www.flusterbuster.com/2013/01/flusters-creative-muster-party-4.html
Hugs and Smiles,
Robin
@ Fluster Buster
Thank you! We had so much fun.
KC
So fun! what a great idea. And you didn’t even have to bundle up and go outside in the cold!
Exactly…no bundling up in the freezing cold and getting snow down my back. We sure did have fun!
KC
now that is a fun snowball fight we could all enjoy come see what I shared at https://shopannies.blogspot.com
Yes, it sure was fun and something that is nice and warm, too! 🙂
KC
How fun! I love that even the cat got into it. 🙂
Yes, I was amazed that he got in on our craziness as well! Thanks for stopping by.
KC
Ha ha, I’d go for this. It’s fun and no mess!
TQM hopping by, blogging for health: Lipoid Pneumonia, Breast Cancer & Petroleum Jelly
Yes, isn’t that great….tons of fun and no mess! Love!
KC
This is such a fun idea! Love it! Your kids look like they had a great time.
Thanks for sharing,
Suzanne
Thanks! Yes, they sure did have fun.
KC