Alright team, buckle up ’cause today was wild! Tried smashing hockey drills together with Easter stuff for my youth squad. Started simple – just dumping plastic eggs and hockey sticks on my garage floor. Needed games that’d keep ’em moving without wrecking the eggs or my nerves.
First idea was Stick-Handling Egg Hunt. Grabbed those leftover plastic eggs from last year, stuffed ’em with candy corn ’cause nobody eats that junk anyway. Taped up the floor with blue painter’s tape like a mini rink. Kids had to stick-handle while scooping eggs into buckets. Sounded slick but man, eggs went flying everywhere! Wasted a good 20 minutes chasing runaway eggs under my workbench.
Next up was Bunny Hop Relay. Made ’em tuck tennis balls between their knees like giant bunny eggs, hop to center ice, then fire wrist shots at empty nets. Total disaster. Little Timmy face-planted before the blue line and cried about scraped knees. Scrapped the hopping real quick – just had ’em skate normal holding foam eggs instead.
Easter Puck Toss actually worked decent. Spray-painted old pucks pastel colors (’cause Martha had extra craft paint). Set up laundry baskets as targets with point values. Little tip? Weight the baskets with hockey tape rolls so they don’t slide when pucks hit ’em. Sammy nailed the 50-pointer basket – parents went nuts!
Got ambitious with Pin the Tail on the Goalie. Drew this ugly goalie poster on butcher paper, made fluffy tails outta cotton balls. Blindfolded kids spun ’em dizzy before letting ’em tape tails. Probably shouldn’t’ve used real hockey tape – ruined my poster when peeling it off. Still, watching Billy try to stick a tail on the goalie’s helmet? Priceless.
Finally tested Egg Russian Roulette. Hard-boiled a dozen eggs but left one raw. Kids shot pucks at ’em lined up in the crease. Whoever smashed the raw egg “won”. Turned out meh – kids just blasted all eggs indiscriminately. Should’ve known better than giving ’em permission to smash stuff. My garage smells like sulfur now.
What kinda worked:
- Ditching actual hopping during relays
- Weighting target baskets
- Using foam eggs instead of tennis balls
What bombed hard:
- Blindfolded spinning near hockey nets
- Raw eggs near hyper kids with sticks
- My garage floor becoming a candy corn graveyard
Gonna hose down the driveway tomorrow. Maybe burn the goalie poster too.
