Go Fishing Game

Materials needed:

  • Large box (appliance or furniture box)
  • Sheet
  • Scissors, string, clothes pins & yardstick
  • Small gifts, candy, etc.
  • Gift wrapping paper
 
  • Obtain large cardboard carton, like appliance or furniture box.
  • Cover box with a sheet. Cut small hole in sheet. (This represents surface of the water)
  • Tie string to end of a stick or yardstick.
  • Tie clothes pin to end of string.
  • A “helper” sits in the fish pond (cut out back of box to allow him/her to sit in it.
  • The “helper” attaches small gifts (favors) to the clothes pin when each child goes fishing.
  • Wrap the favors in scraps of gift-wrap.
  • Children love to unwrap the favors.
  • If box not available, just hang sheet over a doorway, with “helper” on the other side.

A game for the grandchildren - Come to Valdez to FISH!

5-21-05