Enjoy the Super Bowl

Super Bowl Sunday is fast approaching.  

Here are some fun ways to include your kids in the Super Bowl 50 fun!

Carolina Panthers vs. Denver Broncos in San Francisco

1. Prep game snacks and food together.  Search the internet to turn your favorite ingredients into a delightful treat.
2. Point out shapes on the field: The field is a rectangle, the ball is oval, the uprights are almost a square, the coins used for the toss are circles.  See how many different shapes you can find.
3. *Football scoring is odd.  Make it a math game. 
4. Bingo.  Laura at makelifelovely.com made free printable cards.  You can find them here:  bingo cards     
5. Talk with your kids about the colors, teams, players, rules, and sportsmanship. 
6. Learn about the teams’ home cities (Denver and  Charlotte) online before the game or at half-time.  Have you been there?  Would you want to visit? Why?
7. Have a dance party during half-time.  Coldplay and Beyonce will be playing.
8. Get moving.  Decide ahead of time what signals on the field will mean for your group.  Give different categories of commercials a body movement, too.  Here’s what I will be doing:

• false start: 5 jumping jacks
• field goal: 3 push ups
• touchdown: run in place for 30 seconds   
• candy commercial: jump 10 times
• car commercial: pretend to drive

I hope the whole family enjoys the game,

Elizabeth

*Most common scores:

• touchdown = 6
• kicked point after touchdown = 1
• 2-point conversion after touchdown = 2
• field goal = 3