Facilities: How to Make a Winter Mini-Golf Course
In Your School Yard
Winter golf is an activity your students can play during PE classes or at recess. Here's how to make some winter mini-golf holes on your school yard.
Setup
Stomp down the snow to make a tee-off area, a path to each hole (the fairway), and a green. Using green food coloring in a spray bottle (see "How to Make Boundary Lines on a Snow-Packed School Yard"), mark a line around the hole to indicate the green. Or, use wider spray and color the entire green.
Then add some obstacles on the fairway. Obstacles might include a snowman with a tunnel through it's bottom; a trash can lid; croquet wickets; a piece of plywood elevated on one side, etc.
Then make your holes, The holes can either be a hula hoop (when playing with playground balls), or a hole sunk into the snow made from a cut, plastic bleach container.
A wooden dowel, with a triangular piece of felt stapled to it will make a good flag.
Make several such holes and you'll have a golf course your students can use during class, at recess or during a winter festival.
How to Play
Your students can play using a hockey stick and a rubber ball; a broomstick and playground ball (with a hula hoop for a hole); or a floor hockey stick and plastic ball. Like in regular mini-golf, they will have to negotiate the obstacles in order to get to the green and sink their putt.
Reference: Snowgusta Mini Golf, FamilyFun.com http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&;craftid=10681
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