Bocce Socks

Materials:

• Rolled-up socks
• small hard rubber ball

Bocce is an old favorite played with one small target ball and four heavy wooden balls for each team. It's fun, but it could get to be a little noisy (not to mention damaging) if you try to play it in your house.

For a quieter version, which can be played individually or in teams in a hallway, have your children use rolled-up socks instead of the large wooden balls; a small hard rubber ball (squash ball or racquetball) can be the target.

To begin, have one player or team roll the target to the other end of the hall. Then, starting with the other player or team, take turns tossing the socks toward the target, the object being to place the socks as close as possible to the target without touching it. Players score one point for each of their sock tosses that is closer to the target than any of the opposing team's socks (if opposing socks are touching, then there are no points). One good strategy is to use a shot to try to knock the socks of the other team away from the target.

Now there's a game that's likely to knock your socks off!

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© 2005 by Steve and Ruth Bennett. Excerpted from 365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

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