Winter Holidays - Celebrate Christmas With Friends and Snow Games

Winter Holidays - Celebrate Christmas With Friends and Snow Games
By Jan Verhoeff

Christmas at our house almost always includes snow, skiing, and sledding. It's Colorado so snow is plentiful most years by Christmas. My favorite snow game includes a whole passel of people, however many you have can play this game. We always call it "Winter Holiday" though I seem to remember others calling it Surrender or Winter Challenge. The directions are pretty easy, and I'll break them into steps.

Step 1: The Gathering

Gather a crowd of folks to play the game and break into two teams by counting 1 - 2 and separating the ones from the twos. Line up on either side of a snowy yard or field. Spread apart about an arms length from your neighbor on either side.

Step 2: The Selection

Select one person from each team and send that person to the middle of the long row, then stand the two people in between the long rows. Those two stay put. The rest of the teams scatter on either side as far as they can while staying in the same yard or field. (Larger fields are more fun - and if it happens to be a snowy hillside with snow still falling down, that's even better.)

Step 3: The Collection

While walking back toward the center of the gathering, members of each team begin to collect snow balls. As many as each can carry they collect and carry back to the middle. These should be firmly molded together in balls that fit inside a hand.

Step 4: The Delivery

Take the collection of snowballs back to the people in the center. Leave them in their circle and form a loose circle within 10 feet or so of the center people. Begin to walk in a line around and around the inner two people.

Step 5: The Challenge

The people in the middle pick up the snowballs and throw them at the group walking around them. Their object is to hit all the people in the circle with a snowball, knocking them out of the circle. If they get all the people out of the circle, they must surrender their post to the newcomers (two new people selected by the teams). If they don't hit all of them, they must put all the people they didn't hit with snowballs in the middle of the ring.

This is a fun field game for after Christmas Dinner.

Are you ready for some Fun on Christmas day?

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