Penguin Game

When first observing penguins hopping aboard ice floes and then going for a ride, researchers were not sure what that was all about. The scientists decided the birds were not trying to avoid predators or doing some territorial ritual.
                     They were just having some fun!

Here how your kids can have some "penguin style" fun playing this toastier indoor version of this Arctic game:

• Lay a trail of pillow "ice floes" about 2 feet apart on a cleared, carpeted floor
• Have everyone line up single file (this is how penguins migrate north)
• Take turns hopping from pillow to pillow
  

The "penguins" must land with both feet on each "ice floe"; if they don't, they are considered to have fallen in the drink and must step aside.
Space the  pillows farther apart for each new round until all but one "penguin", the winner, has been eliminated.