Get outside this weekend and enjoy the great weather by competing in your own family Olympics! Create a flag for your “country”, wear a team uniform, and try some of these events.
Crab-Walk Sprint
- Find a grassy area
- Mark a start line with ribbon or rope and pace-off 10 long strides to create your racecourse
- Get everyone down on all fours behind the start line with bellies facing up.
- On the signal, everyone races to the finish line while doing the crabwalk
- Your entire body must cross the line
Frisbee Discus Throw
- Create a throwing line in the grass
- Competitors “throw” the frisbee from the throwing line.
- See who can throw frisbee the farthest
Paper Airplane Javelin Throw
- Find a grassy area
- Mark a throwing line with a ribbon, rope, or article of clothing
- Each competitor makes a paper airplane
- Competitors throw their paper airplanes as far as they can from the throwing line
Hopping Hurdles
- Mark a start line and pace-off fifteen long strides to the finish line
- Stretch lengths of ribbon, rope, sticks, sporting equipment, etc. across the racecourse at five, eight, and eleven paces as hurdles
- On the signal, competitors race together through the hurdle course
- Competitors can run between hurdles, but they must plant both feet and “hop” over each hurdle
Relay
- Set up some buckets or other obstacles along the driveway or sidewalk and draw a path with sidewalk chalk to show kids how to weave around them and back to the finish line
- Can use bike, skateboard, scooter, etc.
- Have each complete the course separately, timing them as they go
