Use Your Noodles!
Have any fun, creative ways to use Pool Noodles? If so, Post them here please:)
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Permalink Reply by Kate on -
Hi Renee!
Our kids LOVE the pool noodles. A very popular use is as light sabers/swords. That's right. There is a light saber war on Wednesdays before class starts. It's impressive. :o)
We use the noodles in many of our games as well. We also use them as pointers. Last year we strung them together as DNA strands for our VBS decor. It seems every week we find a new use for our noodles!
How do you use them?
Kate
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Permalink Reply by Tom Reusch on -
We use them as pinata bats for the 'new friend pinata' that we use every week to celebrate our first time guests. I leader grabs big handfuls of candy and stands in the middle of the stage area and the first timers get to beat him/her with the pool noddles til all the candy 'falls' out. :)
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Permalink Reply by Kate on
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Ok Tom-
So I thought you were kidding at first. Then I knew you weren't. I thought our light sabers were violent! He he he. I don't know that I could convince our volunteers to offer to be hit. Maybe I can....Hmmm....
Tom Reusch said:We use them as pinata bats for the 'new friend pinata' that we use every week to celebrate our first time guests. I leader grabs big handfuls of candy and stands in the middle of the stage area and the first timers get to beat him/her with the pool noddles til all the candy 'falls' out. :)
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Permalink Reply by Renee Lewis on -
Great Ideas!! Thanks for Sharing:)
Found some ideas to use with preschoolers at Familyfun.go.com
Ages: 2 years and up
Your pool float noodle has seen enough of the garage. It can't wait for your next trip to the lake. It's colorful and cushiony and so eager to be played with that it's willing to moonlight as a dry-land toy. The four games that follow take terrific advantage of its uniquely flexible uprightness and its even-toddlers-can-manipulate-it light weight.
• Torchbearer Hold the noodle upright and place a beanbag on top. Challenge your child to move around the room without the flame going out--that is, without the beanbag falling off.
• Over/Under When it comes to limbo, the pool noodle is the answer to a solo parent's prayers. We like this version best, in which you hold it out horizontally, then challenge your toddler to move over or under the noodle as if she were one of her favorite animals: she can slither like a snake, crawl like a cat, or hop like a bunny.
• Jack Be Nimble Slowly sweep the length of the noodle back and forth across the ground and see if your child can jump over it when it comes her way.
• Timber! Hold the noodle upright, with one end resting on the floor. Cry "Timber!" and let it fall, while your child scrambles to catch it before it hits the ground. (Once she's got the hang of it, nudge it in different directions to make it more of a challenge.)
LINK: http://familyfun.go.com/parenting/learn/activities/feature/toddler-...
What else can we come up with??
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Permalink Reply by Tom Reusch on
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It's not so much about the violence as it is the candy. Kids in my area (largely hispanic) totally get the joke about a person being used as a pinata. The leader hams it up and tries to run away and all, but ultimately, they're gonna get bopped a little (and it doesn't hurt) but it's all about the spectacle. Our crowd kids really get into it to.
Kate said:Ok Tom-
So I thought you were kidding at first. Then I knew you weren't. I thought our light sabers were violent! He he he. I don't know that I could convince our volunteers to offer to be hit. Maybe I can....Hmmm....
Tom Reusch said:We use them as pinata bats for the 'new friend pinata' that we use every week to celebrate our first time guests. I leader grabs big handfuls of candy and stands in the middle of the stage area and the first timers get to beat him/her with the pool noddles til all the candy 'falls' out. :)
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