Moon Mice 🌕🐭🧀
Story / Theme: 🌕🐭🧀
The brave space explorers 🧑🚀 must travel through a meteor field ☄️ to the moon 🌕, collect cheese 🧀, and bring it safely back to Earth 🌍 — but the mischievous moon mice 🐭 are waiting to steal it!
🧰 Equipment
• 🟠 Traffic cones tipped on their side (meteors)
• 🟡 Yellow round cones (moon surface)
• 🧀 Soft balls hidden under yellow cones (cheese)
• 🟢 Green cones or hoop to mark Earth
• 🪣 Tub/bucket to collect the cheese
• 🧸 Balls on strings or beanbags (simplified option)
• 🪖 Optional: Round cones as “helmets”
• ⚽ Optional: Large inflatable ball (for kick/dribble challenge)
🏃♂️ How to Play
☄️ Scatter traffic cones to create a meteor field.
🌕 Create the moon at one end using yellow round cones, each hiding a cheese ball.
🌍 At the opposite end, mark Earth with a circle of green cones and place a bucket inside.
🧑🚀 Players navigate the meteor field, avoiding cones to reach the moon.
🧀 They lift one cheese at a time and balance it on their racket.
🐭 On the return journey, moon mice (coaches/parents) try to steal cheese if it drops!
🌍 Children deliver the cheese to Earth by placing it in the tub.
🔁 Repeat until all the cheese is collected.
🐣 Feathers
• 🫘 Use beanbags instead of balls to make balancing easier for younger children.
🧠 Progressions
🪖 Helmet Challenge: Balance a round cone on the head while carrying cheese.
🧺 Multi-Collection: Collect more than one cheese at a time.
⚽ Dribble Challenge: Carry cheese while kicking or dribbling an inflatable ball.
🌀 Variations
• 🏃♂️ Team Race: Two teams collect from the same moon — the team with the most cheese wins!
• ❓ Hidden Cheese: Only some yellow cones contain cheese — adds surprise!
• 🕵️ Sneaky Mode: Players can sneak into the moon mice’s lair and try to steal back lost cheese without being caught!
Seasonal alternatives for your Moon Mice 🐭🌕🧀 game – adding quick fun twists for Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Valentine’s Day, and Mother's/Father’s Day 👇
🎄 Christmas – The Elf Cheese Chase🎅 Elves are trying to rescue Santa’s secret cheese stash from the Moon before the naughty Moon Mice (Grinches!) get it.
🧀 Cheese = yellow beanbags
🌕 Moon = yellow round cones
🌍 Earth = green cones + Santa’s sack tub
🎯 Add jingle bells to the "moon mice" (parents) for added fun.
🎃 Halloween – Witches on the Moon🧙♀️ Kids are witches flying through a spooky meteor field to steal magical moon cheese from under bubbling cauldrons.
🪄 Add black cones or eyeball-style beanbags
👻 Coaches = spooky ghosts trying to steal the cheese!
🐣 Easter – Egg Rescue from the Moon🐰 Easter Bunny lost all the chocolate eggs on the moon! Kids dodge space carrots (cones) to recover the eggs (mini eggs / beanbags) and bring them back to the Easter Basket on Earth.
🥚 Only some cones hide the eggs — surprise element stays in!
💘 Valentine’s – Cupid’s Cheese Run💌 Players must retrieve lost heart-shaped cheeses (red/pink beanbags) while dodging falling stars (cones).
🧀 Drop them in the “Heart Box” (Earth tub) while the Moon Mice of Love (parents) try to steal them gently with scoopers.
👩👧👦 Mother’s / Father’s Day – Breakfast on the Moon🍳 The kids are astronauts on a mission to collect breakfast ingredients for Mum/Dad hidden on the moon.
🥐 Beanbags represent croissants, toast, and fruit
🛰️ Moon mice become hungry aliens trying to steal the brekkie before it’s delivered!