Creativity is the key

July 22, 2012

Creativity is the Key

At Learning on the Log, we love coming up with new games, adapting rules to typical sports, coming up with creative uses of whatever equipment we have on hand, and mainly, how to optimize the most fun for our campers while creating outlets for them to practice new skills. One of our favorite games this summer, which currently has no name (stay tuned to vote on our game and see a video), is a combination between hockey and soccer. The kids use noodles so there is no danger of getting hurt if anyone swings too hard or too high, we use a beach ball so there is little chance of missing the ball when they swing at it, we have more than one ball on the "field" at a time so more kids get the chance to participate, we have goalies that use pool "kick boards" to block, and the kids LOVE IT!! We get to see them working as a team, calling out to each other when they are open, and looking around to see who they can pass the ball to. They have on team jerseys to make this task easier. Each team does their own "hands in the middle" at the beginning of each game and they work together to come up with a team name and cheer. They celebrate together when they score and most of them are also so sweet to cheer for the other team when they score as well :) We sometimes may get confused and score in the wrong goal or pass to the wrong team, but overall we get to see the joy on the kids faces and their determination not to let their team down. All of that, with a few pool toys, who could ask for anything more?