1. Find a friend who has a bunch of kids she’s also trying to keep busy–in my case, my friend found me. (Hello, friend. Thank you for your early morning call today.)
2. Drag out to your yard anything that could remotely become some sort of obstacle or test of skill.
3. Throw in some Mexican hats for good measure.
4. Don’t forget brown cardboard rolls–think wrapping paper, paper towels, whatever. This one became a challenge to make yourself into a scarecrow.
5. Bubbles. Need I say more?
6. Take a lot of time to plan the obstacle course and figure out the order of what you have to do to get to the next event and lay it all out carefully. Be prepared that the events themselves are not nearly as fun as the planning, and the attention given to actually complete the organized course by the young children it was created for by the older children is over in about 5 minutes tops. At which time, allow children to become absorbed in books or bungee cord play.
7. During those 5 minutes when everyone is still into the course and afterwards when all are simply running around, take loads of pictures.
we ♥ summer
Absolutely loved this post!!! So fun!