Thanks very much to Wendy Baker, who posted this great idea to the Guiding Mailing List! This game was originally created by Kim Walker.

This is a giant, people-sized board game! The girls are their own markers and the numbers as set out below are written on newspaper squares, which are placed in a board game pattern on the floor of your meeting space and taped together. For a reusable game, you could use pieces of Bristol board with the questions written on them in marker. You can make giant dice out of cardboard, or use a pair of those old fuzzy dice which used to be so popular to hang on your car's rear-view mirror. :-)

Squares:

1. Start

2. Move ahead to #12

3. Blank square

4. Describe how to make a Quinzee.

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6. The Algonquin Indians invented a special form of wooden transportation, used for pulling their foods from place to place in winter. What is it called? (If you are wrong don't move).

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8. Tell how to prevent frostbite. If wrong miss a turn. If right roll again.

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10. You're not wearing your hat, go back to start.

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12. Tell how to treat hypothermia. If right move two forward, if wrong go back two squares.

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14. Name 3 well-known and often used pieces of winter closing invented by Canada's indigenous people.

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16. Red sky at night sailors delight, Red sky in morning...? Finish the rhyme.

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18. Perform an Ice Rescue using other players or objects to go to next square.

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20. Name 1 winter animal track that you might see in the snow.

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22. What is layering of clothing good for?

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24. What do you use to travel in deep snow?

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26. How do you avoid dehydration in winter?

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28. Name 3 major winter constellations in winter sky.

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30. Tried to sleep in clothes you wore all day. Go back to start!

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32. How do you lay a fire in snow?

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34. You forgot to bring extra socks, miss a turn.

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36. You only have a summer weight sleeping bag, how are you going to keep warm?

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38. Someone forgot to bring a sleeping bag. What can you do and how?

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40. Your feet are cold because they are bare in your sleeping bag - Go back to #20.

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42. How do you hold down a tent on frozen ground?

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44. How can you make a bed in snow?

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46. Why do you not eat snow? Go back 3 if your answer is wrong. You win if your answer is correct. You can go winter camping!

Answers:

4. Dig a hollow in the snow. Throw snow back on so it crystallizes. After a few hours hollow out the snow dwelling as it has set.

6. A toboggan

14. Parka, Anorak (one piece jacket pulled over head), Mukluk (high booted winter moccasin), the moccasin.

20. Rabbit, bird, cat, deer, fox, wolf.

28. Cygnus (Swan), Lyra, Ursa Minor (Little Dipper), Orion. Taurus, Andromeda, Pegasus, Cassiopeia, Ursa Major (Big Dipper)

32. Trample area and lay a foundation of green logs under your fire.

36. Put two sleeping bags one inside other, put 2 blankets inside sleeping bag making sure that you have as much under you as over you as cold comes from the ground. Use groundsheet under you and over you.

38. Zip two sleeping bags together and have three people sleep in the two bags... body heat will keep you all warm.

42. Use logs to hold guy lines down or tie to trees.

44. Sleeping on snow heats it up and can melt it. Make a bed of evergreen boughs or use a thick layer of newspaper covered in plastic.

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