We started off by making Gold Medals. Ammon and I had made some salt dough earlier and shaped them into big round circles. Each kid got their own to decorate using things like toothpicks, forks - you know, stuff that they could drag in the dough to create a design. Then we stuck them in the oven and continued the party! We had some tape on the ground that represented different sports in the Winter Olympics. Left to right: Ice Skates; Snow Board; Sled; Skis.
We learned about 14 different winter Olympic sports and which type of transportation (ice skates, snow board, sled or skis) each sport used. The only tricky one was curling - it doesn't use any of them! This is a picture of Sadie and Rigdon bobsledding :)
We took a break about half way through the sports to make edible Olympic Rings. We didn't eat them right away, we saved them for the movie. (The purple rings are kind of hard to see in the pictures because our table is a dark color...)
Then we played Olympic Bingo!
That night we watched Cool Runnings and ate our Olympic Rings (colorful licorice), M&M's (Bingo markers) and Vanilla Oreo's (Gold Medals).
When the salt dough medals were done cooking, Ammon took them outside and spray painted them with metallic gold paint. In the morning, we put a ribbon through the hole (before cooking the dough we put a hole in the top using a straw) and each kid got their own Gold Medal!
It was a fun party!
What a fun party! You are a very FUN Aunt Allison!
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