Many obstacle courses contain obstacles that require the participants to leap over or around. Including jumping obstacles can be a great way to make your obstacle course a fun challenge. Review some of the following ideas to get you started when thinking about your jumping obstacles:
Uneven platforms, tilted walls, hanging rings…and a ball pit to cushion all your falls. Perhaps one of the most exhilarating team-building events, Warrior Course lets you face off against your friends and family in the ultimate action-packed obstacle course.
Water Obstacle Course Using balloons, pool noodles and lots of water, this obstacle course is perfect for all ages! 2. Spy Training Obstacle Course Kids love to pretend as spies or as action characters. Start their training by creating your very own Spy training camp!
We recently took on this challenge and built our Recycle Warrior obstacle course! The goal was to create an obstacle course that students would love to participate in, all while promoting the importance of recycling. Want to try it yourself? We encourage you to try making any of the individual activities for a gym or field day activity.
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One of the best things about an obstacle course is that you can put any activity in it. Try out this homemade DIY Cavaletti!
I think obstacle courses are great for kids. They encourage thinking and problem solving. Also most of the obstacle courses require lots of physical movement which is so hard to achieve these days.
1. Water Obstacle Course. Using balloons, pool noodles and lots of water, this obstacle course is perfect for all ages! 2. Spy Training Obstacle Course. Kids love to pretend as spies or as action characters. Start their training by creating your very own Spy training camp! 3. Backyard Obstacle Course.
If summer is over and you are still cra ving for obstacle courses, you can always do it indoors!
You don't need a lot of materials to do this. Just look around your home for toys that can be used for every station for the obstacle course.
Using only a box of colored chalks, you can create your own obstacle course even without a backyard!
With your pool noodles hanging around your house after the summer getaway, you can still use it for this awesome obstacle course.
Look around for the best space available to you for your obstacle course. Hills might be obstacles themselves and can add difficulty to your course. Flat areas are a great location if you plan on building obstacles yourself that need to be level.
Place them according to plan. Having assembled your obstacles you can begin to place them according to your obstacle course layout plan. Place the obstacles where you planed them and evaluate their position before opening up our course to others.
Consider inflatable obstacles . A safe and easy option for creating an obstacle course is to make use of inflatable obstacles. Since these obstacles are inflatable they pose a low risk of injury and can add an appealing and lighthearted feeling to your obstacle course.
Including teamwork can be a great way to get your participants working together to overcome the obstacle course.
Salmon runs, quad steps, and warp walls are all challenging obstacles you can add to your course.
Running around a series of cones, like a skier slaloming, can be a good test of agility. Try tying small threads with bells attached to them just off the ground. Participants have to step around them without ringing the bells.
Building a simple obstacle course for your friends and family on the other hand will not require such steps.
We recently took on this challenge and built our Recycle Warrior obstacle course! The goal was to create an obstacle course that students would love to participate in, all while promoting the importance of recycling.
Recycled materials make up the entire over-under challenge. The cans are the posts, and the bar across the top is made from plastic bottles. We just glued them all together to make them secure. To help hold it into place, we used two-liter bottles filled with sand. The bottles across the top balance gently on the cans, so they will move if students brush up against them. This adds to the fun, though! If someone knocks one off, you can decide to deduct points or add on to their race time. (We think a five-second penalty works.)
Every good race has a good finish. Since we wanted to spread the message of how important it is to recycle, we put a recycling bin at the end of the course. After they made their way through the tunnel, students dunked their bottles into the bin. By having one with a small opening, like the one pictured here, it even added a bit of a challenge to the end!
Recycle Rally is a free nationwide program that directly benefits K–12 schools and students by providing valuable incentives and resources to help make recycling easy, fun, and rewarding.
Every school can find extra cardboard to use. This cardboard tunnel is made of several different boxes to give students a section to crawl through. Remember, students still have to be holding their plastic bottle. Attaching all the boxes together really makes it challenging (and fun) for students.
The roundabout can be done in so many ways. It’s basically a way to bring in a challenge where students have to weave from one section to the next.
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An obstacle course is basically a set of challenges and/or maneuvers that each participant has to complete to make it to the end of the course. Obstacles can include climbing, crawling, jumping. They can even include random actions such as dancing or singing, depending on the nature of the course.
Throwing objects to a target is another great challenge for an obstacle course.
For this fun obstacle course, find obstacles such as cones, cups, or plates and place them around the field, with enough room to maneuver around each of them.
There are lots of fun carrying challenges that you can incorporate into your obstacle course. Place an egg in a spoon and make it to an end point. Balloons between knees. Carrying a glass of water from one end of the field to another without spilling.
Kicking. Kicking is a great skill to use while doing an obstacle course. Dribbling soccer balls around objects is a great way to practice soccer skills, but requires patience and skills. Other objects can be kicked around, such as beach balls, cans, liter soda bottles, or anything else lying around in the recycle bin.
At a designated spot of the course, require the participant to perform a certain exercise or combination of exercise for a determined amount or time period.
If the participant answers correctly, they get to move on. If they do not answer correctly, they must perform an action , either an exercise challenge or an impersonation challenge.