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14 games to play in the snow
By Deborah Davis
Toilet toss
Game prep
Discarded toilet or bucket
Plunger
How to play
Got an old biffy in your back 40? Here's an outrageous curling creation from the townsfolk of Almo, Ont.
Their annual Plunger Plop revamps the sport by using a toilet as the house and plungers instead of stones.
Twelve curling sheets are created on an outside rink and a toilet is set at both ends of each. With 48 teams,
players try to score 10 points. Circles drawn in spray paint around the "house" allow scores of one and two
points. To adapt the Plunger Plop for the cottage, use a single toilet or bucket. Plungers scarce? Players
can line up to toss snowballs. Use food colouring and water to make the "house." If you prefer to aim higher,
use snow to mark a bull's eye on the side of a tree. Take turns throwing at the target.
Fowl bowl
Game prep
Frozen turkeys (or a substitute)
"Bowling" lane
How to play
Looking for a new cottage tradition for your holiday turkey? Then take a gander at an event spotted a few
years ago at a cottage-country carnival. Adults rolled frozen turkeys to knock over pop-bottle pins set up on
an outside bowling lane. Kids bowled Cornish hens to topple small water bottles filled with ice. If you'd
rather not bowl your bird, try this variation at the cottage. Fill two empty soup or coffee cans with water
and freeze. Fill 10 two-litre pop bottles with five centimeters of gravel or sand to make bowling pins. Clear
an 10-metre-long alley on the ice and make a starting line with stones, twigs, ,or food colouring mixed with
water. Players get two throws each, with pins cleared between throws. One point is scored for each pin
knocked down. The player with the most points wins.
If you liked those games, you will love these ones:
Steal the snowman's snowball
Pitching snowballs
Speed-skating challenge
Spell your name in the snow
Freezer/melter tag
Winter golfing
Human curling
Tire swing toss
Build a family snow fort
Snowball challenge
Foxy moxie
Obstacle course tobogganing
Published in the Winter 2004 issue of Cottage Life magazine.
