Ultimate Food Fight

Soooo when I decided that my young writer’s group was going to become a teen advisory board in late spring, I decided to do some different activities for them in the summer.  I came up with a pretty substantial list of things for them to do, but they insisted that we have some sort of food related activity.  NOTE: They are always eating.  The fact that they wanted to do something with food was no surprise.  So I put The Ultimate Food Fight as our activity for the fourth week of summer reading, but I wasn’t sure what to do with it for a week or two.  I did a little brainstorming and came up with this.  I will say that this has been my most successful program as far as the teens being completely satisfied with the activity.

So the hour was different food-related Minute to Win It type games followed by a pie fight of epic proportions.

1st game: Move an Oreo from your forehead to your mouth using only your face muscles.  This was hilarious for me.  I’ll show you.

They made the weirdest, most awkward facial movements I have ever seen.  I could not stop giggling.

2nd game: Orange roll

I don’t have pictures of this one because I had to participate for even teams.  We broke into two teams and had to roll an orange back and forth (relay style) between two masking tape strips.  The team that finished first won.  (Needless to say, my team won.  Heh.)

3rd game: Pasta Pick-up

Four people had one minute to pick up the most colored noodles using only an uncooked piece of spaghetti.  They thought this would be a breeze, but it took them a lot longer than they thought.  Then they had fun playing with the noodles after.

4th game: M&M sort

I had two bags of M&Ms – one peanut, one regular – and they had a minute to sort the m&ms into a tray by color.  Same thing here – harder than it looked.  The best strategy we found was to pick out all the m&ms of one color and then go the next, rather than taking a handful and trying to sort them.

5th game: Chubby Bunny

Seriously.  How could I have a food competition and NOT do chubby bunny?  Here they are with all the marshmallows in their mouths.

PIE FIGHT!!!

I did this when I was in high school as part of a summer drama program.  After that, I have to this DAY never knowingly eaten Redi-whip.  It was fun, but sticky and smelly and gross after.  I knew these guys would love it.  So I bought a bunch of pie plates and cans of Redi-whip (I did not buy enough.  1 can of regular Redi-whip fills about two pie plates.  Also don’t make them even fifteen minutes before you use them.  Make them and use them, or the Redi-whip starts to melt).  I made them go out to the grass and take all their stuff with them and brought a roll of paper towels.  I did NOT want them back in the library all gross.

Totally messy.  Totally happy teens.  SUCCESS!