The Great Race
I went camping this past weekend with my church youth group and we played many games while outdoors for three days, but one game stuck out, it was called The Great Race. This game probably sticks out the most for a simple reason, it was the last game we played and so more evident in my memory. This game consists of seven different stations. All of the kids there were on a team of seven or eight, but only seven people from each team participated in this game. At each station a task was performed and then every had to run to the end of the entire race to the last station, where everyone was needed to complete it all.
The first two stations involved a lot of food and running. The first one was an eating contest. One member from each team had to eat a peanut butter and jelly, not sandwich, but hot dog. We were out of regular bread. Then they ran and tagged a nearby tree where the next member of the team was waiting to perform station two. Station two was an egg race. Everyone had to balance an egg on a spoon and go about an eight of a mile as fast as they could without dropping it. If the egg was dropped the person had to go back to the beginning at the tree and start again.
At the end of the egg race was another team player waiting at station three. After this next person tagged the egg race completer he then had to hop on one foot for about the same distance as the egg race. This was quite a task so a rule was made to be able to switch your foot every 20 hops and you were able to hold your foot. This made it much easier and the kids got to station four much quicker.
Station four and five were basic tasks. At the fourth one you had to do something I had seen on the television show, Wild and Crazy kids, a number of times growing up. This was placing your forehead on the end of a golf club, holding the club vertically as it touched the ground and spinning around ten times as quickly as possible. This person then had to run, dizzy and all, to the other team member at station five. Station five was crab walking, something everyone did in elementary school, getting on all fours and walking backwards. This person had to do this until station six was reached.
The person at station six had to be really hungry, because they were made to a lot of food. This person consumed an entire large pixie stick and a can of Vienna sausage. Many of the kids who did this felt nauseated afterwards. They were very glad when that station was over with and the team could move on to number seven, the frisbee throw. This was where the sixth team member kept throwing freebies until one reached a hill off in the distance.
This hill was where the last and final station was located. Every team member met up there and formed a five person pyramid with speed and balance. The largest and strongest people were placed on the bottom, the smallest on the top and everyone else in the middle. After this everyone cheered, because the great race was over and everyone could rest easy. The winning team was the most excited of all, but everyone had a lot of fun and I don't doubt they would all do it again.
The first two stations involved a lot of food and running. The first one was an eating contest. One member from each team had to eat a peanut butter and jelly, not sandwich, but hot dog. We were out of regular bread. Then they ran and tagged a nearby tree where the next member of the team was waiting to perform station two. Station two was an egg race. Everyone had to balance an egg on a spoon and go about an eight of a mile as fast as they could without dropping it. If the egg was dropped the person had to go back to the beginning at the tree and start again.
At the end of the egg race was another team player waiting at station three. After this next person tagged the egg race completer he then had to hop on one foot for about the same distance as the egg race. This was quite a task so a rule was made to be able to switch your foot every 20 hops and you were able to hold your foot. This made it much easier and the kids got to station four much quicker.
Station four and five were basic tasks. At the fourth one you had to do something I had seen on the television show, Wild and Crazy kids, a number of times growing up. This was placing your forehead on the end of a golf club, holding the club vertically as it touched the ground and spinning around ten times as quickly as possible. This person then had to run, dizzy and all, to the other team member at station five. Station five was crab walking, something everyone did in elementary school, getting on all fours and walking backwards. This person had to do this until station six was reached.
The person at station six had to be really hungry, because they were made to a lot of food. This person consumed an entire large pixie stick and a can of Vienna sausage. Many of the kids who did this felt nauseated afterwards. They were very glad when that station was over with and the team could move on to number seven, the frisbee throw. This was where the sixth team member kept throwing freebies until one reached a hill off in the distance.
This hill was where the last and final station was located. Every team member met up there and formed a five person pyramid with speed and balance. The largest and strongest people were placed on the bottom, the smallest on the top and everyone else in the middle. After this everyone cheered, because the great race was over and everyone could rest easy. The winning team was the most excited of all, but everyone had a lot of fun and I don't doubt they would all do it again.
posted by Heather @ 10/19/2004 03:25:00 PM
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