❄️ Snowball Fight
A fast, fun, safe throwing game using soft balls only.
🎤 Coach Script / Intro
“Has anyone here ever played in the snow before?
When it snows, what can we have? A snowball fight! ❄️
Today we’re doing our own safe version using soft snowballs only!”
🎯 Objective
• Develop throwing accuracy
• Build quick reactions (catching, dodging, blocking)
• Encourage teamwork and cooperation
• Safe distance throwing practice
🧩 Setup
• Use two long rows of cones to divide the space into two sides
• Distance should be close enough for balls to reach but far enough to avoid face hits
• One bucket of soft balls only (foam balls, sponge balls, “fat balls”)
• Decide teams:
– Small group → Kids vs Parents
– Large group → Kids vs Kids
❄️ How to Play
Each team starts on their side behind the cone line
Balls are scattered evenly
On the coach’s whistle, both teams:
• Pick up balls
• Throw them over the cone line at the other team
• Players can catch and throw back
• Players may duck behind cones for coverNo crossing the cone boundary
Play in short rounds (45–60 seconds)
🧊 Winning Options
Choose based on age group:
• Most balls on the other team's side at the whistle
• Hit tally (coach keeps count of snowballs that land on players’ legs/body)
• First team to 10 successful hits
🪶 Feathers (Make It Easier)
• Use larger, slower foam balls
• Shorten the distance between cone lines
• Players can roll or bounce snowballs instead of throwing
• Allow parents/coaches to help younger players
🔥 Progressions (Harder)
• Players must throw with their non-dominant hand
• Add movement lanes behind cones to force footwork
• “Catch = extra point” rule
• Timed rounds with increasing distance
• Introduce two-ball “snowstorm mode”
🛡️ Safety Notes
• Soft balls only
• No aiming at faces (coach emphasises “below the shoulders”)
• Keep safe spacing behind cones
• Stop immediately if someone wanders across the cone line
• Encourage safe throwing, not maximum power