ACTIVITIES

 

• Obstacle Course

  • Make a path between rows of packing peanuts for participants to run between without disturbing any of the "hazardous" materials. Make the task trickier by timing their speed or also requiring a cape to be worn as the cape will create a breeze as they fly through the course.

  • Add blocks or boxes to jump over or walk across depending on their stability.

  • Have a balance beam or a rope on the ground they must cross one foot in front of the other. 

  • Give participants a balloon or small ball to hold between their calves while walking.

  • Create a hop scotch section or place hula hoops on the ground to hop through.

  • Set up tables, chairs, or boxes to crawl under (add a challenge by tying string between the table legs that they must also crawl under).

  • Change the way they need to move through the course e.g. bunny hop, crab crawl.

  • Challenge participants to carry an object with a spoon.

 

• Target Practice

  • Bowling pin/ 2-liter bottle villain faces knock-down

  • Bags (Corn hole) toss

  • Create monster or villain targets for Nerf fights.

  • Suspend hula hoops they have to toss items through.

  • Use pool noodles and toss javelin style. 

  • Roll small balls or slide beanbags aiming at kids' feet and have them dodge them.

 

• Tween Improv Game-- Hero Poses

   

  Form a circle.  First player makes their heroic pose.  The player on their left copies their pose and then must strike a pose of their own.  The player on their left only copies the previous pose and then creates their own (so every player performs two poses, and ever pose is only performed twice).  It might take a few practice tries, but it is a great ice breaker, and can be adapted to sound effects (KAPOW!) and fighting moves.

 

• Friendly Tween Game of Dodge Ball