Throwing Snowballs

The dollar store sells these pompoms that look like and are marketed as snowballs. We were wondering how to use them in an educational manner because, who doesn’t love to throw snowballs? We came up with a classroom game where the students are throwing the snowballs towards some solo cups. Each cup has a number on it. Once the student has knocked down a cup, he or she goes and picks it up, makes note of what number they knocked down and then marks it off on a small sheet of paper.

It is so simple, yet valuable. The throwing motion towards a particular target helps motor development and by having to throw at “numbers”, ensures the students know and are becoming increasingly familiar with the numbers.