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Game Ideas for a Marshmallow Shooter

Marshmallow shooters are plastic toy guns loaded with marshmallows and fired, sending soft marshmallows flying out of the barrel. While the marshmallows themselves are not harmful, be sure you avoid using the shooter in very hot temperatures or the marshmallows may begin to melt in your gun. Create your own versions of marshmallow shooter games tailored for your kids or family, with plenty of marshmallow ammunition to keep the fun going.

Target Games
- Make your own targets out of cardboard and paint them with acrylic paints. Attach your targets to trees and measure off a desired distance from the target with a measuring tape to start your game. Allow each person shooting to take aim at the target in turn and see who strikes the target closest to the bulls-eye. Assign points for each area of the bulls-eye so that you can keep score. Then move the firing line closer or farther away from the target and let the players shoot again. Have as many rounds in the competition as you like. The person with the most points wins.
Treasure Hunt
- This game will require planning on your part and you will need two teams, with all team members armed with their own marshmallow shooters. Hide a treasure somewhere on your property. Make the treasure something easily recognizable, such as a stuffed animal with a red ribbon tied around its neck. Then figure out two different paths to get to the treasure from a starting point, such as your back door. Each team will need to leave from the starting point from a different direction with a map, made by you, that leads them to the treasure. At some point while the teams progress toward the treasure, they will confront one another and must shoot it out and see who survives. Anyone shot with a marshmallow is out, leaving the remaining team members to snatch the treasure and make it back to the starting point to win the game.
Forts
- Have your kids and their friends build their own forts in the backyard with cardboard boxes. Give members of each team a red flag to guard in their fort, with the object being that one team must capture the other team's flag to win. Then start the game and supervise as the two forts battle it out with their marshmallow shooters. You play the referee and call players out who get hit with a marshmallow three or more times. The game ends when either one team has lost all of its players or one team has captured the other team's red flag.
Marshmallow Dunk
- Line up buckets or large coffee cans in a row. Mark off a line for players to stand on on the ground with a stick. Have each player take a turn and shoot, with each player attempting to dunk a marshmallow into one of the buckets or cans. The person able to dunk the most marshmallows in one of the cans or buckets wins.

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