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Slip n' Slide Dodgeball Tournament

Alec Alvarado
Canyon Hills Friends Church/Youth Ministry
Yorba Linda, CA, U.S.

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Dodgeball is great, but what about dodgeball on a slippery surface? This event is made to take an already fun game and bring it over the edge!

Supplies:

Large plastic painters tarp,

Common liquid household items (soap, ketchup, mustard, you get the idea)

Tent stakes (You’ll want the tarp staked down, the tighter the tarp, the more slippery it will be!)

Spheres to throw (like how I kept it PG?).

How to play:

Have your students pick teams and create a “March Madness” bracket, lay the tarp out on a soft surface(don’t want students to fall and crack open a skull on pavement), and begin to get messy! You can make different categories for winners of this tournament. Obviously the team to defeat all the rest wins overall but you can make categories likes messiest team, best fall, and cleanest team. This event can only get more creative the more thought you put into it.

This event can be LOW cost depending on how big you do it, but the only real cost would be the painters tarp and food/drink for students. Otherwise, call upon the church’s kitchen for the messy part of this event! Expired ketchup DOES have a purpose!

Audience

  • Elementary
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • College
  • Young Adult
  • Volunteers

Context

  • Outdoor

Group Size

  • Small group (0-10)
  • Mid sized group (11-50)
  • Large group (51+)

Requires

  • Music
  • Supplies
  • Spending money

Level of activity

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