We are thankful that the team arrived safely and are keeping busy with all kinds of activities like construction, teacher training at the school, helping with the feeding program and more.
To see photos and read about the team's activities you can go to the blog:
www.ccccnic.blogspot.com
I had a whole prize system at the end and everything. To be honest I was pretty impressed with myself over the whole thing. If you want to do it, I'd be happy to share because I copied lots from the internet and just modified it to make it work for our city.
I made up all these envelopes with the clues and challenges: (hooray for my alphabet stamp sets!)
This was probably cheaper and wouldn't give me a headache.
Here's an example of a clue:
Stop HANGING around and
SWING into action.
Go to a place where you
found childhood satisfaction.
Don’t let your game SLIDE,
stop PLAYING around,
Hurry and get over to this
fun loving GROUND.
When the kids showed up at the location, I would be there to hand them the challenge for that location and also the clue to find the next location. I would then drive off to the next location to meet them.
See, this was the Challenge at the playground:
Take a trip to memory
lane, it is time to PLAY! Complete all of these fun playground challenges to
receive your next clue! Don’t forget to take pictures!
- Everyone
must slide down the slide backwards, face first, and then all at once.
- Each
person takes turns pushing a team member on the swing and doing an
underdog
- Play
one round of follow the leader around the entire playground.
as I said I can't take credit for these fun clues because I copied them off examples I saw on the internet.
I found it funny to meet the kids at different locations. I'd start off sitting at a location in my car confident that they would figure out the clue because I made them really easy. However, as the clock ticked away and they did not show up, I would start to get nervous and wonder where they were.
Intellectually I knew it could take them a long time to get to some of the check points because they would have had to take a bus but emotionally I worried about all sorts of things.
At one check point they showed up earlier than I expected because they ordered an UBER and got a drive! I guess they weren't interested in waiting an hour for the next bus.
Pit stops included a pet store where they had to find out facts on a certain pet, a japanese restaurant where they had to eat squid, a laundrymat where they had to put on oversized clothes. and the mall where they had to hug a mannequin.
Their photographic "proof" that they did the challenges were hilarious.
The race finished with everyone being presented with a makeshift medal and a gift bag with chips.
So, this March Break week continues. We'll see what adventures show up later this week!
Thanks for dropping in!
I hope you have a good week too!
Wow! You are a rock star mom!! Way to go!
ReplyDeleteThis is the greatest thing ever! I will have to do this whent he kids are older :)
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