As you enter the large illuminated igloo, you might be surprised by the scene in front of you. A large ice hockey rink has been setup, complete with four team benches, two on either side of the ice. Each bench section is labeled with a house flag and that’s where you and your house mates should assemble.

Once inside your bench area, you’ll note that several pairs of skates have been left out for you, as well as several trays of paint. A floating sign above the skates indicates that those acting as painters need only to tap the skates with their wand in order to ensure they’re the right size and fit. Wondering why there aren’t enough skates for everyone? Well, a booming voice-thank you, amplifying charm-helps to explain just that.

“Welcome, students, to the ice art challenge! Each house will be tasked with creating an image of a snowman using, well, your skates, and the paint provided! Your job? First to Third Year Students will be acting as painters, lacing up and then dipping their skates in paints to help create the image! Fourth through Seventh Years will be responsible for partnering with one of the painters, acting as a Pusher! You pushers will help the painters get the desired look as best you can by helping to move the painter around on the ice! Only one painter and one pusher from each house may be on the ice at any time, to ensure no ice skating injuries! Once a painter and pusher from a house have finished their part, they will go back to their bench and tag the next pair! The house that completes a snowman with the most detail within the allotted time will be deemed the winners by your lovely professors! The clock starts now!”

SPOILER!!: OOC Instructions! READ FIRST

-You do not have to post your charries arriving! Just pretend they’ve arrived and gotten settled on their house bench!
-With that being said, your posts should be activity posts!

-Students from years 1-3 will be the “Painters.”
-Students from years 4-7 will be “Pushers.”

-So, in order to advance your team’s picture, there will need to be a pair of posts that consist of first, the Painter, and then the Pusher. The posts have to be consecutive. There can be no post in between a Hufflepuff Painter and Hufflepuff Pusher, for example, or else the posts won’t count. The pairs, when they’ve done their posts, cannot post for their team until another pair from their team has gone….(unless the activity level is dwindling.) So IC, the activity is that a pair must go out, draw the paint with their skates, and come back in and ‘tag’ the next pair to go out (pushers should indicate that their team is leaving the ice in their post).

-The objective is for the team to paint a picture using paint on the bottom of skates and painting the picture on the ice.

-Whichever team has the most pairs that have posted without there being a post in between them, will win the game.

SPOILER!!: For example:

Post 1: *Hufflepuff Painter *
Post 2: *Gryffindor Painter *
Post 3: *Hufflepuff Pusher*

^^^Hufflepuff would get no credit.

Post 1: * Hufflepuff Painter *
Post 2: * Huffelpuff Pusher *
Post 3: *Gryffindor Painter *
Post 4: *Ravenclaw Painter *
Post 5: * Gryffindor Pusher*

^^^Hufflepuff would get the point for this, but Gryffindor would not.

-Students must label their posts with either the “Painter” or “Pusher” label, preceded by their house, like in the above examples.

-Yes, those who've never skated, as well as the pushers, might fall. STILL, no serious injuries should occur!