I don’t know about you, but we love the Olympics at our
house. We decided that in honor of the 2014 Winter Olympics we would have our
own family opening ceremonies.
I made all of the signs with
just some scratch paper and Tay’s crayons. This is what our schedule for the
evening looked like.
We started off by feeding the athletes (aka our family) an
international dinner (I got this idea from A and Steph). Here is what our menu looked like.
After dinner we ran the torch (a flashlight that I taped
tissue paper and foil to). We started in “Greece” of course.
We each took turns running the torch around our house. We
had the lights on downstairs to represent running the torch during the day, and
turned off the lights upstairs to represent running the torch at night. We cheered as whoever was holding the torch ran by. Our
dining room table was our track so we ran the torch around the track and then
lit the big torch (our gas fireplace).
After we ran the torch we each made a flag to represent our
own country. We used scrap paper and taped it to straws. Then we, the athletes,
marched into the stadium (down the hall and around our table).
It was a fun night and a few days later our daughter is
still carrying her flag around with pride.
Happy Olympics!
Heather
