LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!!!!!!!!

Onto the final and most vital piece of all this:

The events and their rules:

These are the 7 events my children will be competing in this year. If some of these games are not suitable for your children, you can watch our videos from last year for smoother ideas. You can also come up with your own games that are more appropriate for your family! 

*Note: All games are based on 5 contestants. Adjust accordingly.

EVENT #1

OPENING CEREMONIES + LIVE MEMORY

What you will need:

The homemade torches

12 sets of identical prizes. (2 key chains, 2 silly patty’s…)

24 aluminum 9×13 pans (or any size, you just want yto make sure that the prices fit fully underneath them)

For the opening ceremony, play Olympic music, and have the contestants line up in age order. Light the oldest ones torch and then he lights the persons next to him. Continue until all torches are lit and then take a cermonious walk around the living room.

(Blow out torches and save for closing ceremony)

How to play:

Send the children out of the room.

Arrange the prizes on a large space on the floor, separating identical prizes, in a grid like pattern.

Cover each prize with an aluminum pan.

Call the children back into the room.

Now play memory….

Give each a child a chance to uncover two prizes. If the prizes are not the same, replace the pan over the prize and it is the next Childs turn.

When someone uncovers identical prizes they keep it.

Play until all prizes have been accounted for.

We like to end this game with a prize swap. No one can keep two prizes and they must trade. Sometimes they need our help to facilitate this but usually it goes smoothly since they are all equally small, 1 shekel prizes!

EVENT #2

THE MISE EN PLACE RACE

AKA, SOMEONE ELSE IS PREPPIN’ DINNER TONIGHT!

(yes, this game is proudly borrowed from top chef)

Every year this event looks different. This is this years version.

What you will need:

5 plastic cutting boards

1 batch challah dough (divided)

5 aluminum 9×13 pans, greased

5 eggs, each one in a small bowl

5 forks

10 pickles (divided)

5 plastic knifes

5 plastic bowls

2&1/2 cups pf parsley (with stems)

10 small plastic plates

2&1/2 lbs. chopped meat (put 1/2 lb. of meat into 5 separate mixing bowls

5 tsp. salt (divided)

2&1/2 tsp pepper (divided)

(any other spices you use to flavor your hamburgers, just 5 small portions of each)

5 large plastic plates

How to play:

Cover your dining room table with plastic.

Set up five separate working stations.

Place a cutting board in the center of each one and one of each ingredient around the cutting board.

Place the ingredients in order of the relay clockwise starting from the bottom left corner of the cutting board.

To play the game each player has to complete each of the 4 parts of the race before moving onto the next part.

The player that completes all 4 challenges first wins.

This years challenges:

make 2 challah rolls, place them in the given pan, crack & beat the egg, and coat the top of the roll

cut up pickles and place in a bowl (if your kids like something else on their burgers, swap it with the pickles)

separate the parsley leaves from the stems and cut up the leaves

Add parsley, salt and pepper to chopped meat and form 3 hamburger patties. Once the patties are formed and the pan the race is complete!

EVENT #3

THE ANIMAL WALK & TALK RELAY

This is a timed challenge. Each child takes their turn while an adult times them. The child with the best time, wins.

What you will need:

4 animal masks (lion, penguin, crab, frog)

4 pieces of string

painters tape in 4 different colors

How to play:

Use 1 color of the painters tape to create a maze in the floor of your living room. Each color tape should be about 12 feet of maze.

Continue with the next color, until you have 4 different color paths.

It doesn’t matter where’re they start or end.

All that matters is that a mask is placed at the begging of each pathway.

The child must put on the mask and walk like the animal that the mask represent.

At the same time they must sing “dreidel, dreidel dreidel, I made you out of clay…” in a voice that represents that animal.

If they fall down from the animal walk or because they were laughing to hard, they must go back to the beginning of that pathway.

The player to complete the relay the fastest wins.

To printout the animal masks from me, click here. 

If for some reason, printing the masks doesn’t work for you, you can google “children’s animal masks” and print out what you want from there.

 

 

EVENT #4

COOKIE STACKING HEATS

This is a game of balance.

What you will need:

• painters tape, 1 color
• 30 oreos

How to play:

• Lay a long piece of painters tape across the floor. This is the start line.
• Lay another piece 6-8 feet away. This is the finish line.
• Each child, you can do this one at a timer simultaneously, places 1 oreo on his/her head. He must walk to the finish line.
• At the finish line he/she must place another roe onto of the first and walk back to the start line where they will receive another oreo.
• The player to walk back and forth with the most oreo’s piled on their heads is the winner.

 

 

EVENT #5

BLACKOUT SCAVANGER HUNT

What you will need:

• Go through the provided printout sheet and make sure you have enough of every category in your home.
• Print out the scavenger hunt list
• 5 pencils
• 5 shopping bags
• 5 flashlights

How to play:

• Give each player a scavenger hunt list, a pencil a bag and a flashlight.
• Turn on the flashlights and shut off all flash lights in your house. (Dads everywhere are going to love this. If only we could live in the dark all the time, we would never forget to shut off the lights, right dad?)
• Set the timer on your phone for 15 minutes
• Press start and let each kid go off and try to find as many things on the list as they can.

The person who found the most items is the winner!

Click here to print out the Chalympic Scavanger hunt list.

EVENT #6

THE BLIND TASTE TEST

What you will need:

blindfold, or scarf

a cookie sheet (to contain any spills)

20 different foods that can fit into small bowls or cups

20 small bowls or cups

a kitchen towel

How to play:

• Send the kids out of the kitchen.
• Place the cups on the cookie sheet and fill each one with as different edible product. (can be food, drink, snack, condiment, spice…)
• Place a kitchen towel over the filled bowls so that no one can see whats underneath.
• Call each child one at a time into the kitchen.
• Cover their eyes with the blind and remove the kitchen towel.
• Help them guide their hand into each bowl one at a time.
• They must taste each item and identify it.
• Only first answers are accepted to remind them to take their time.
• The child that guesses the most right is the winner.

Examples of tasters: Ketchup, Mayo, Honey, Croutons, Salt, Chopped hard boiled egg, Chocolate chips, Captain crunch, Cut up string cheese, Butter, Cucumbers, Red sufganiya jelly, Lemon wedges, Pickles, Plain yogurt, Franks hot sauce, Soda, Peanut butter, Craisins, Pesto, Salad dressing…

EVENT #7

THE CANDY SUCK

What you will need:

• 10 plastic plates
• 5 straws
• 100 adashim or skittles (m&m like candy)

How to play:

Set up 5 stations

At each station place two plates side by side and a straw.

Place 20 adashim or skittles on one plate at each station.

When you say go, each child must use their straw to suck up one of the candies and move it to the other plate.

The first child to get all the candies from one plate to the next is the winner.

CLOSING CEREMONY

TALLY UP ALL THE MEDALS ON THE SCOREBOARD. THE PERSON WOITH THE MOST GOLDS, IS THE OVERALL WINNER, THE PERSON WITH THE SECOND MOST IS THE SILVER NEDAL WINNER AND SO ON AND SO FORTH. 

Repeat the torch lighting ceremony only this time the overall winner goes first!

UNTIL NEXT YEAR, THE END.

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