Party Game – How To Make A Saran Wrap Ball

Saran wrap balls have been around for a few years, but have taken off this past Christmas with lots of households using them as a gift-giving game. They are lots of fun! I made one a few years ago for an Easter Picnic, I made one for the adults with items wrapped around a wine bottle. The trick to making them fun is choosing small items that are easily hidden. I used the Saran wrap or Glad wrap as it is known in other countries to hide in small items. White-coloured items, like notes etc are easy to hide.

For example in my wine bottle Saran wrap ball I had scratch lotto tickets, a sample pack of mini moisturiser and 4 pack of earbuds from a hotel. Of course I added some good things too, mini perfume samples, a pen and some chewing gum, all very easy to hide under the bottle or flat against the bottle. So as we got down to the bottom, everyone thought the wine bottle was theirs. Of course my version was for adults, but here are some variations of the Saran ball game you can make too. It’s used like a saran wrap pass the parcel and some of these blogs have created “Rules” and “Dice throwing” to add a little extra craziness to the Saran Wrap Ball game.

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I guess moss and lichen are more things that you see in the spring than in the summer, but there are some deep shady parts of our yard that stay mossy all year, and summer is a fine time to look for plants that like to live in shady, wet areas.

Raising Up Wild Things has a really pretty set of printables to use for a moss and lichen unit study.

And just in case you’re like me and don’t really know the difference, moss is a plant that grows in damp wooded areas, while lichen is a combination of fungus and algae that live together. Lichen can live in different environments but are often found in places where you would find moss, too.

The printable includes drawings of some common moss such as sphagnum moss and wood moss, as well as common lichen shapes (crusty, leafy and shrubby). There are good sized images you can print out and laminate to use to compare to specimens you find when you are exploring nature.

There’s also a forest floor coloring page and a printable journaling page where kids can write or draw their observations and there are a few questions older kids can answer.

You can use these when you go on a walk in the woods (or the back yard) to talk about what you are seeing, or combine them with other resources to talk about things that live in the forest. Check them out at Raising Up Wild Things.

This PDF from the Morton Arboretum has a bunch of pictures of different kinds of moss and where to find them, which could also be helpful in your studies. Learn more about lichen, including what they are and what they are not, in this article from the US Forest Service.

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