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Wednesday, June 6, 2001
| In This Issue |
- THE SLOP-STACLE COURSE! Another Gross Game to Satisfy My Sick and Twisted Readers
- THE TEN BAGS OF DOOM: For Those of Us With Less Time to Plan!
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| THE SLOP-STACLE COURSE! Another Gross Game to Satisfy My Sick and Twisted Readers |
Out of over half a million hits to Jonathan’s Resources last month, out of the hundreds of resource pages on the site, my SICK AND TWISTED GAMES FROM DOWN UNDER was in the top ten pages visited, right under VIDEO CLIPS, SPECIAL EVENTS and THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF GAME LEADING!
Let’s face it . . . you guys like sick games!
Here’s another game/event that some sick nutcase from Virginia sent in, combined with some other sick submissions:
THE SLOP-STACLE COURSE
We put our heads together and made up an obstacle course, which is now known as “SLOP-stacle Course.” Market this big! Let students know they are gonna get disgusting and to bring a change of clothes!
Use your creativity with this. You can make one course and time people going through, or make it for two people, with two of each part of the course so it can be a race or relay. Either way, make sure you video tape it for great viewing later.
EXAMPLE COURSE:
Have them start by jumping off something into a tub/baby pool of a couple dozen eggs. Then, dripping with egg goo, they run over a broken down cardboard box covered with french fries with ketchup on them (just spread out a few SuperSize fries and squirt Ketchup all over)
Next, have them go through a box maze that you set up with a few refrigerator/dishwasher (large) boxes. Sprinkle in your favorite item for them to slide thru.(we did flour) You can have “squirters” on the sides of these boxes with bottles of syrup. Have the “squirters” squirt syrup at the people going through the box maze, just like a car wash!
Then have them crawl through the Tunnel ‘o goo. The Tunnel o’ goo is simply a plastic bag tunnel that you make, filled with yucky stuff. (peg a large sheet of plastic- preferably black so it warms in the sun- and peg it to the ground. Get a whole lot of scraps, sauce, anything you like. This is good for camps because you collect the leftovers from the week! Then place another sheet of plastic over it all- don’t peg this one down. It’s kind of like a slip and slide with a lid! Have a couple people on each side holding the ends up for air flow.)
They then proceed to a table(s) filled with party hats. Fill them up with powdered sugar or the like. They obviously put these on for the rest of the course.
Next will be more cardboard covered with finger paint- or something colorful for them to walk thru.
From there they go to a plate of whipped cream to find buried gummy bears . . . without their hands- of course!
Last comes the “Dirty Diapers” on a table. These have 2 different types of pudding inside each diaper- Butterscotch & Chocolate. (note from Jonathan- if you ask me about this . . . I’m taking the 5th amendment!) They must lick the contents inside – top to bottom. That would end any race!
The people that watch the SLOP- STACLE course have as much fun as the people that do it (if not more!)
| THE TEN BAGS OF DOOM: For Those of Us With Less Time to Plan! |
I confess, as much as I’d love to see a SLOP-STACLE course (except the diaper part!), I’ve never done one. But I have done the Ten Bags of Doom- and they don’t take much set up time (just a lot of clean up).
I always used “Ten Bags o’ Doom” (call them what you want) as a motivation/marketing piece for a certain event. I always picked one of my staff guys who all the kids love- like my staff guy Jim- and told the students that if they brought a certain number of their friends to a certain event, they got to give Jim the “Ten Bags o’ Doom!”
The “Ten Bags . . .” are 10 messy items they get to dump on his head.
Rule of thumb, start with something sticky- and everything else sticks to it! Here’s a typical order of 10 items we would dump on poor Jim:
1. Gallon milk
2. Jumbo bottle of syrup
3. Bag of flour
4. Hershey’s chocolate syrup
5. Oatmeal
6. Box of Fruity Pebbles
7. Pancake Mix
8. Jumbo Jar of Apple Sauce
9. Jar of Prego Spaghetti Sauce
10. Squeeze Bottle of Mustard
A couple things to remember:
1. Only do “Ten Bags . . .” to a Male staff member- I don’t have enough time to list the number of reasons why . . . just trust me!
2. Only do “Ten Bags . . .” to a staff member who agrees to it, and has a good attitude (and understands the purpose of your group)
3. Have a hose nearby!
4. Prepare for a mess on the ground!
5. Have the staff person bring a towel and a change of clothes!
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God Bless!
Jonathan R. McKee
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Jonathan McKee is the author of over twenty books including the brand new The Guy's Guide to FOUR BATTLES Every Young Man Must Face; The Teen’s Guide to Social Media & Mobile Devices; If I Had a Parenting Do Over; and the Amazon Best Seller - The Guy's Guide to God, Girls and the Phone in Your Pocket. He speaks to parents and leaders worldwide, all while providing free resources for youth workers on TheSource4YM.com. Jonathan, his wife Lori, and their three kids live in California.