I've resisted getting excited about the Olympics, but I can't prevent it anymore. Quite frankly it's pretty big damn deal that Britain is hosting them and I really regret not trying to get any tickets for the football matches in Cardiff.
Over the next few weeks I will be doing some sporty activities with The Boy and trying to rope in a few of his friends too, maybe we'll try out the Lemon and Spoon race again?
The rather fantastically fabulous Innocent have been chosen to be the official smoothie and juice of the London 2012 Olympic Games. They have created a little booklet full of ideas on how to host a fruit sports day, including games you can play, what to eat and drink, and even some of their favourite parks around the country to hold any events in.
Olympic Games To Play
- Lemon and spoon race: use a lemon, not an egg! Less messy!
- Peach volleyball: no, not a real peach but a peach ball or an orange balloon. You could even draw a green leaf on it.
- Jave-lime: use a lime as a throwing object and see how far you can throw the little green fruit.
- Pineapple bowling: use them as skittles and then in your fruity cocktail or on a pizza.
- Banana boomerang: see how far you can throw the banana, if you get it to come back then even better. The winner is the one who throws it the furthest but if you split it, you lose and have to make banana splits for everyone!
Olympic Food To Eat
- Spanish Summer frittata: courgettes, broad beans, parmesan, goat's cheese, eggs. What's not to love?
- Mexican Tortilla chips & salsa: crisps, paprika, chilli, tomatoes and some sour cream on the side.
- Rise & shine flapjacks: apricots, honey and dates; classically Olympic.
Olympic Drinks
- Apple Do Nicely: 900ml innocent apple juice, a punnet of raspberries washed and mushed into a puree, a small handful of fresh mint, finely chopped and a few sprigs of fresh mint to garnish. Serve over ice.
- Peachy Fizz: 2 ripe peaches, 1 teaspoon honey, 500ml sparkling water. Like a Bellini but no booze.
And to finish off the lazy afternoons activities, what better music to accompany the fun and games than 'Summertime' by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, 'Long, Hot Summer' by The Style Council, and The Beach Boys' 'Good Vibrations'?
The very kind folk at Innocent are offering readers of TheBoyandMe the chance to win a month's supply of their new Cherries & Strawberries Smoothie.
In order to be in with a chance of winning, please add your idea for Olympic food, drink or games into the comments box below. It's that simple!
T&C: One winner will be chosen at random from complete entries. Innocent are responsible for providing the winner with vouchers to purchase a month's worth of smoothies. Competition closes on Saturday 4th August 2012 at 8pm. I will notify the winner within 48 hours and require a reply within a further 48 hours or I will redraw for another winner.
Cornflake cakes made with Lyle's Golden Syrup and rich chocolate!
Traditional English welly wanging
Melted down Glacier mints into a big 2012 sign – food colour it any colour you want!
Ginger biscuits cut in circles and iced and decorated as medals 🙂
fairy cakes decorated with gold spinkles/dust
Some lovely donuts, with olympic ring coloured icing, yum!
fairy cakes with either red, white or blue icing!
A sack race!
A game of quoits with olympic coloured rings, with chocolate coin medals for the winners and then rainbow cake (layered plain, blue and red dyed sponge cake).
strawberry, blueberry and cold milk mixed together to represent the british flag.
Egg and spoon race
quoits with olympic coloured rings
Have a Hula-Hoop contest!
My Olympic snack would be fruity javelins with pineapple, apple, grapes and melon 🙂
@caro_mad
A great game would be smoothie fight, where instead of water you use smoothie in a water gun and go nuts! kids would run towards it with their mouths open, rather than running away! 😀
Fried Olympic Squid Rings with Salt & Pepper – Yum!
Hard boiled eggs….buy white eggs and boil some with red food dye in the water, some with blue food dye and leave some white. Olympic eggs!
How about doing an Olympic discus with a banana? Or a game where you have to design a new smoothie using only fruits that are red, white or blue – strawberry, melon and blueberry for instance – creative and tasty! @Bobbity666
I'd have party rings, and put them in the Olympic rings design!
It has to be cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off, served with scones, jam and clotted cream, with a pot of tea…. as British as it gets lol.
Vegetable kebab becomes an Olympic torch lunch.
Homemade biscuits polo shaped. Sandwiched with buttercream and strawberry jam.
Games? Just celebrate with Conga dancing
the best Olympic food would be something truly British — fish & chips with lots of salt and vinegar wrapped in the times newspaper
(Runner) Bean Soup, Water (Melon) Polo, Horse (Chestnut) Dressage, Taekwondo(nuts).
Cookies or Biscuits add a hole for string to make medals for all our little gold medalists 🙂
Smoothie drinking contest.
Innocent smoothies!!!.
Have the fastest and most yummiest smoothie making contest.
Fancie cupcakes alongside a lovely strawberry and banana innocent smootie for energy!
colored jelly in orange segments , easier than you think to make 🙂
Olympic Tiddly Winks! Thats what I'd like to see!
Javelin throwing – using Union Jack Umbrella's.
Have a race to get olympic rings to the other side in teams
has to be eton mess
Marbles, but only red, white and blue ones
Cheese Rolling 🙂 That would be better to watch than the gymnastics!
Jelly and spoon race!
cupcakes!
Carrots of fire:
Light them up like a torch and start a race. Torchbearers must keep their carrots well lit and keep them on until they get to the finish line.
Been to Wimbledon today so strawberries and cream… how about a strawberry smoothie!
Dig out the hula hoops and some ribbons on sticks and recreate the gymnastics floorwork.
Olympic fruit salad – the colours of the fruit could match the Olympic rings eg. Blueberries, bananas, black grapes, kiwi and strawberry – yum 😛
cupcakes in olympic colours x
Basketball banana bread
swimming
Pineapple ring hoopla 🙂
Innocent smoothies
"I'm Not Hungary"
A pancake with blueberries, strawberries and bananas topped with lemon juice and a tiny bit of cream or yogurt.
Eat it with yer feet up watching the diving.
Cheese Rolling!
playing hoopla with doughnuts mmmmmmmmm
@emmav6
How about an event called 'dress the toddler in under a minute'
Game: 'Tarzan' style vine/rope swinging amongst trees.
Smoothies made from Strawberries and Ice Cream, served with circular wafers.
blueberry ice cream with strawberries and cream!
(Olympic) Ring toss
Baguette javelin throwing
Tug of War
Eton mess with added blueberries!
MEDAL COOKIES!
Olympic cocktails with 3 layers to signify the british colours, red grenadine, white lemonade and vodka and top layer of blue caracoua! Garnished with a red cherry!
union jack trifle!
layers of strawberries, blueberries and plenty of vanilla cream+ sponge
yummy
Pineapple rings to play hoop-la on cheese sticks.
'Olympic rings' made from thinly sliced and cored fruits of different colours 🙂
Chocken Nuggets….works for the fastest man on the planet.
Stained glass window biscuits in ring shapes with the olympic colours is the middle.
Jam Goldy Poly – Jam Roly Poly topped with Golden Syrup
fruit rings – the olympic rings made of different fruits
Good old Sausage and Mash, a good british food for London 2012! 🙂
blueberries, strawberries,mixed with vanilla ice cream and served in a cone
A steak and ale pie with the olympic rings on top in pastry x
I think the coconut shy should be an olympic sport!!! Have you ever seen anyone knock on off?? I know i havnt!!!
Make little medal shaped gingerbread, but make sure you put a hole in before baking and you can thread a ribbon through for a realistic looking medal that children and adults will love.
Cupcakes that are a mixture of red white and blue 🙂
Ice cream cones with spun sugar flames- edible olympic torches!
roll the orange, (a little bit like roll the penny in an amusement arcade, you must ensure it does go outside the lines and you will win.
Olympic onion rings!
how about stuffed peppers for food and rainbow coloured jelly
space hopping and throwing peppers through hoops
orange bowls
Rounders
Layered jelly made up olympics rings colour so would need to add food coluring to get a jelly blue
Mars bar, banana and poridge oats – energy boost in a bottle
Empire Biscuits with red, white and blue icing 🙂
My idea is … a Korma burger, and my reason is combing Asian food, with the USA, so joining the world up in food 🙂
A mini Olympics but with old School games such as the sack race, egg and spoon – with medals made out of cookies with the appropriate edible glitter on them such as gold
How about Battenburg in Red, White and Blue (instead of the traditional yellow & pink).
Food and activity all in one event … humble pie eating!
Squash-Putt: Throwing a squash as far as you can!
My Olympic snack would be chicken Pakora with chillie sauce yum!!
Home made brandy snaps filled with Chantilly Cream, strawberries and blueberries. The brandy snaps are the colour of Bradley Wiggins hair which is filled with red white and blue summery goodness 🙂
gold cherry and bananna 🙂
Pizzas decorated to show the different events, you could use pepperoni for bike wheels etc
boneless banquet from kfc with a union jack box n cup
A massive fruit salad, which would have to include; blueberries, strawberries and apple for the white; something for everyone
Golden chicken medallions on spaghetti strings!
Pizza decorated with breaded chicken (for gold medals) on a mozarella string!
Tug of war should be an olympic game!
Salt dough medals! painted gold, silver and bronze once dried!
Make a scrapbook of events and the best 3 receives bronze, silver or gold!
Bobbing for summer fruits instead of apples!! 🙂
My absolute favourite food is a delicious, big salad – either vegetable or fruit. There are so many different colours to choose from, I would make a huge and delicious bowl of side salad (for the bbq) and fruit salad into the shape of the Olympic rings.