I love our neighborhood. Our friends are always up for a good time. My friend Suzann and I both talked about doing an activity with our families to celebrate the Olympics. We figured the more the merrier, so we invited everyone who wanted to come!
We had sooooo many ideas, but we decided to keep it to 10 challenges. We also thought of getting volunteers to run each event, but really, people like easy. We also wanted to encourage the kids to do all the challenges, so we made a list of each challenge/event and put it on a pendant to wear like a medal. We made signs to explain each challenge and put a sheet of stickers at the challenge so you could collect a sticker right when you were done. Like I said, there were sooo many ideas, but we limited ourselves and made it easy on us too!
I have to say, when I was little, we had a family reunion where we got to do family olympics. I remember having a card that we put stars on after finishing each event and the main event I remember was walking on #10 cans with strings attached to make them into stilts. (maybe that is in an old family video on vhs, is that why I remember it?) I loved the idea apparently, because although we didn't have stilts, I did use the star and list idea!
Here are the event cards: (hopefully you can read it)
Ping Pong Challenge:
Look! I was there! I think I just dropped the hoola hoop. Sweet Raquel was racing me :) and nate was getting ready for his turn.
Olympic Themed Treats! We said to bring an olympic treat to share and we got some fun ones!!
It was later used more as a swimming pool, but that was just perfect too!
Graham was super nice to help the kids do a relay race! We saw some commotion in the grass area and suddenly everyone was lined up, parents assigned to help each line and we had some fun foot races!
