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Water Ameba: Form a circle and have everyone hold hands, put a kiddy pool in the middle of the circle. The object of the game is to try and get people to fall into the kiddy pool, by pulling, pushing, etc, but the circular link cannot be broken. If you do fall in the kiddy pool you're out of the game, if the link breaks, the two people who broke the link are out of the game. The game is over when there is only one person left.
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Burning Building: Break them up into groups of about ten people. Have them stand in a square area mark out by cones. A few volunteer leaders will need to wear a toy fireman’s hat and carry a super soaker. Every one in each group will ask all ten people in their group their name, where they are from and there favorite hobby. When everyone is ready yell fire! Fire! Fire! Every body in the building must find one person that has something in common with them out of these three categories. They have fifteen seconds to find this person. They cannot leave the burning building unless they have they save someone else. They must come out with their arms linked together. Every one left in the burning building will be sprayed down with the super soakers or hoses or whatever.
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Slippery Shapes: Break up the group into 2-4 teams. Have them assemble together on a huge tarp covered with soap and water. The judge or judges have to get to a somewhat of an elevated position. You can stand on a chair. You call out an object and each group has work together to make the shape of that object as it would be seen from above. The judge decides whose shape looks the most realistic and awards a point. Play 5 or 6 rounds increasing the difficulty of the shape.
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Start by having all of the kids remove one shoe and placing it in a pile in another room. Then place two chairs facing each other in the middle of the field. Start by having an assistant randomly draw two shoes from the pile. The owners of these two shoes then sit facing each other in the chairs. On "go" they stare into each other’s eyes until one of them blinks. The object is to "out-stare" your opponent. The winner stays in the chair and the loser gets a bucket of water dumped on him. Another shoe is randomly selected from the pile to face the champion. Whoever is in the chair after all of the "shoes" have gone is the winner.
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Ask questions and if the guest answer with a "Yes" they must get up from their chair and move one place to their left. They may end up sitting on someone's lap or two laps. This is the twist. Each person will be holding a water balloon on their lap. Here are the questions, which you can vary with your own: Are you in high school? Are you from this town? Are you Single? Each time the answer is yes the person will get wetter and wetter. When the teen can finally answer no you go on to the next person.
Games:
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Water-Bag Attack: During this soggy game, teams create their own ammunition to use against their opponents. Two teams stand on opposite ends of the playing area with Ziploc sandwich bags and two large buckets of water (one per team). Two empty buckets, one per team, should be placed at each end of the playing area, and players aren’t allowed to get within five feet of them during the game. Create a center line on the playing field. Players fill their Ziploc bags with water, seal them, and try to hurl them into the opposing team’s buckets from behind the center line, they must also defend their own team’s buckets. As long as a bag hasn’t fallen into the no-enter zone around the goal, it can be picked up and thrown again by either team. After the game is over, count the number of bags in each bucket. A team earns fie points for each baggie in their opponent’s buckets. Bow empty any baggies that didn’t already break open on impact and see how much water is in each bucket. Award another 20 points to the team with the smallest amount of accumulated water in their bucket.
–Len Cuthbert
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Blind Bombers: Divide up into two teams. Make signs with a steak and drive them into the ground. On each sign write a different point total. Scatter these signs with the most valuable ones placed the furthest away from the other team. One team will have one person stand at each one of the locations designated by the signs. They are not allowed to move. The other team will select half of the people to be blind folded. Each blind folded player will be given water balloons. The other half of the team that isn’t wearing blindfolds will partner with those that are and direct them in where to aim. They are not allowed to through the balloons for them. Add up all the points together and then let the other team go.
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Super Soaker Floater: To prepare for this game, fill some Super Soaker water guns and inflate lots of balloons (one per player). Each player tries to stay in the game by spraying a balloon with the water to keep it in the air. No part of a player’s body or water gun may touch the balloon, and the balloon obviously can’t touch the floor or that player is out.
-Len Cuthbert
4. Dunk, Dunk, Whoosh: Everyone sits in a circle, and the person who is “It” walks around the outside saying, “Dunk, dunk…” while holding a large container full of water. Once It has chosen his victim, he dumps the water on him-that’s the whoosh. Then “It” gets chased around the circle by the soaking wet person and sits down in the victim’s empty spot. If It is tagged before he can safely sit down, then he must go back to the middle and everyone in the circle gets to dump water on him.
-Russell Waddell
5. Wet Bombers: First begin by marking out a starting line and a finishing line approximately 50 feet apart. Find 5 or 6 obstacles that are large enough to be hidden behind, for example a table or a wheelbarrow. Place the obstacles approx. 10 feet apart in a zig-zag pattern between the start and finish.
Assign two people to be the "Bombers " and give them each a bucket full of water and about 10 small sponges. (It works good to cut those big sloppy car sponges into three and use those. It is also possible to use water balloons but I find that they create more garbage and hurt more which is sometimes a consideration). Place one of the "bombers' 10 feet past the finish line and one halfway between the lines. The object of the game is to get from the start to the finish without getting hit by a wet sponge by going from obstacle to obstacle. Obviously the job of the "bombers" is to try and hit the runners. The "halfway bomber" is only allowed to try and hit the runner until the runner has passed them and then they must cease fire. For every obstacle that the runner gets to they receive an assigned point value. Their total points equals their score. Everyone's wet, everyone's happy.
6. Illuminated Water-Balloon Football: Buy an Illuminator Sports Ball or Football (www.funworx.com or 888-388-6559.) They each cost about $13. Fill lots of water balloons and place half of them in a bucket in each end zone. Finally, mark your end zones so they’ll glow in the dark, and you’re ready to go. This game is a combination of regular football and Speedball, but outside and after dark. Players may only pass the ball to each other. Otherwise it’s too dangerous to play, especially when kids have different levels of athletic skill. So the ball gets tossed along from player to player until a touchdown or turnover occurs. A tackle is made by soaking a player with a water balloon. Players get the water balloons from their end zones and carefully pass them up and down the field to their teammates until someone on the defense can get close enough to soak the player who is holding the ball. (Be careful to keep the ball from getting too wet, or it may stop working.) Teams get the same four downs as in football, but players get soaked each time they’re tackled, which is a cooler alternative to using those flag-football belts. -Paul Brown
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