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Outdoor Party Games
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Pass the
Sand
Ingredients
To Play
-
Divide the group into two teams
and line them up.
-
Have the person in each line grab
a handful of sand from a container. They must pass the sand to the next
player, who passes it to the next, and so on down the line.
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When the sand reaches the last
player, he/she pours what is left of it on a plate. The team with the most
sand wins the game. (You may have to weigh the sand on a food scale if it's
close.)
Tug of
Water
Ingredients
-
Sprinkler
-
Garden Hose or rope
To Play
-
Set up the sprinkler in the
middle of the lawn and turn it on.
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Divide the group into two teams
and have each team hold an end of the garden hose or a rope.
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On the word "Go!" have the teams
try to pull their opponents into the sprinkler.
Pop the
Piranha
Ingredients
To Play
-
Inflate balloons and tie them
off.
-
Using black felt-tip permanent
markers, draw fish faces on the balloons.
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Toss balloons into the kiddy
pool, one for each child.
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On the word "Go!" have the kids
jump into the pool and try to grab/pop a wet and slippery balloon.
Go Fishing
Ingredients
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Plastic toys
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Magnetic Tape
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Kiddy Pool
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Sticks and String
To Play
-
Buy some plastic toys and attach
a piece of magnetic tape to each one.
-
Make fishing poles out of sticks
and string with magnets tied to the bottom of the string.
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Drop the toys into the bottom of
the pool. Give the kids the fishing poles.
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Let the kids fish for their
"prize" in the kiddy pool.
Toss n'
Soak
Ingredients
-
Plastic Pool
-
Water
-
Rubber Ball
To Play
-
Fill up a plastic pool with water
and have kids stand around the outside of the pool.
-
They must toss the ball back and
forth to one another and try to catch it.
-
If the ball hits the water, the
child who failed to catch the ball is "out." Whomever is left standing last
wins.
Poison
This is a game where there is one
lucky person who is "it."
Ingredients
To Play
-
Someone stands between two
bases. In our backyard we made the "bases" a fence at one end of the yard
and a brick wall at the other end of the yard. The player is allowed to
move anywhere between those 2 bases.
-
He is given a ball, and his goal
is to try to hit at least one of the people while they are running from base
to base.
-
Obviously, once people are on the
base they are "safe." Once he hits someone else with the ball, that person
becomes "it." There is no actual winner of this game, but it is action
packed and it can go on for hours until the players get tired.
What Time
is it Mr. Fox?
Ingredients
To Play
-
There is one person who is "Mr.
Fox", and everyone else is trying to stay away from him or her. We used to
play this from the top to the bottom of a driveway, but it can be played
anywhere as long as there is enough room to run. Mr. Fox usually stands at
the part of the driveway closest to the house.
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Everyone else stands on the
designated base and asks in unison, "What time is it Mr. Fox?" As Mr. Fox
responds with the time, it can be any time that Mr. Fox would like it to
be.
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Each person needs to take the
number of steps that correspond with the time toward Mr. Fox. For example,
if Mr. Fox says it's 4 o'clock, everyone takes 4 steps toward him. It is up
to the individual how large they make each step.
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The group continues to ask the
same question, while Mr. Fox replies with different answers as to "what time
it is." Before the players reach Mr. Fox he or she answers the question
"What time is it Mr. Fox," he turns around and answers, "It's time to eat
you!"
-
He chases everyone until he
catches someone, or everyone makes it back to the base safely. If anyone is
caught, then they become "Mr. Fox." (There is no winner to this game
either.)
Scavenger
Hunt
This is a game that is usually
relatively inexpensive and time-consuming, good for both kids and parents.
Ingredients
To Play
-
Write out clues on index cards.
-
Give the partygoers clues that
take them from place to place. Perhaps this game could begin at the house of
the party host/hostess, and the final clue could lead to the party
destination.
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The team that arrives at the
final destination first wins! Or instead of a Scavenger Hunt have kids solve
a Detective's Case. Set out clues all over the yard and have kids collect
them. Then the kids have to figure out what the clues mean. You might have
them find clues to making a pizza, building a scarecrow, or solving a
puzzle.
Keep it Dry
A fun swimming pool game!
Ingredients
-
Stone
-
Cotton Ball
-
Marshmallow
-
Pool
To Play
-
Give each player a small object
that changes when it gets wet, such as a stone, cotton ball, or a
marshmallow.
-
Players must try to swim from one
end of the pool to the other without getting their object wet. The swimmer
with the driest object wins.
Butterfingers Ball
Ingredients
To Play
-
As one player jumps off the
diving board or platform, another player stands in the shallow end (or on
the side) and throws the ball to the jumper, who tries to catch the ball and
hold it until he/she hits the water.
Prizes
Gold Fish
Let the games begin, from The Game
Girl
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