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Tuesday, June 19, 2001
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| POOL GAMES |
Last week I had you add your best pool games.? Here’s a few good ones:
Gold Fish Snag
Throw about 50 gold fish into a swimming pool. That’s right you guessed it!! Whoever catches the most fish with their bare hands wins! For added fun, add some other bigger fish or try it in the dark!
Added by Eben in South Africa
Jump or Dive
Here is a classic pool game that is fun for the crazy participants but slightly more entertaining for the onlookers.
One requirement is a pool that has a diving board and is large enough for people to dive into.
1. Whoever wants to play lines up outside the pool.
2. Going one at a time, the player must getting a running start, get a good bounce off the board, then at the last second the leader either yells JUMP or DIVE.
3. The player must quickly react and make the necessary adjustments.? It begins to get hilarious when players start anticipating the call and try to adjust but end up with very painful belly flops.
*One way to keep the game moving is to have elimination.
*For added fun, yell JUMP or DIVE just a little too late!
Added by Steve Garcia, Roseville, MI
Watermelon Polo
Water Polo with a small watermelon (or small greased watermelon)
Added by Jon Perrin, Plano, TX
H2O Long Jump
Start at the diving board (or side of pool). The catch is that you put floats, etc in the pool – and the jumper can try to “walk on water” for extra distance!
Added by Jon Peters
Trash Bag Rafts
Give each group a certain number of the largest trash can bags you can find and some tape/rope etc. See who can build the strongest raft and then race across the width of the pool.
Added by Eben in South Africa
Great Additions!? Here’s a few classics you can’t forget and a few of my own!
Biggest Splash
Need I explain?
Belly Flop
Judge on 3 catagories:
1.? Creativity
2.? Pain
3.? Air
Pool Waterskiing
That’s right!? You can water ski in a pool!? (It just helps if it is an Olympic sized pool!)? Just have a strong staff guy bracing himself and holding a water ski rope in the back of a truck just outside the pool area.? When the skier yells “hit it,” the truck takes off and skis the person 3/4 the way across the pool before the person in the truck lets go of the rope (for safety).? Have people with inner tubes or blow up rafts on the side of the pool for safety! (It’s best to test this out with a couple of staff first to see how far to pull before letting go!)
This is just cool to watch.? You can score it how you like.? The best way is for judges to hold up numbers between 1 and 10.
King of the Tube
This is a game where teams compete for time.? Each team selects a champion that can stay on a tube the longest.? One at a time, a champion sits in a tube, and when the timer starts, the opposite teams all try to tip over the champion WITHOUT TOUCHING HIM, only the tube.
Time each champion, see who stays on the longest.
Water Ballet
Give each team a certain amount of time to perform a water ballet that involves EVERY team member.
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Jonathan McKee
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.