Planning to have a mini Olympic games in the garden for kids under twelve on my street. Looking for ideas more exciting than the egg and spoon race, but not as dangerous as the javelin, Ideas please!

Ps can use a large field so space not an issue

If this place is anything to go by, should be whining, complaining and grumbling!

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Three legged race is a classic! Rolling sideways race? Welly wanging?

a netball/basketball hoop and a see who can get the most score out of 5 throws?

One of these in the corner of the field so they all feel safe?

Oh yes will be investing in a range of security devices and will have staff provided by g4s (if they have any spare)

Spacehopper races!

Relay race carrying buckets of water instead of batons in an It’s a Knockout stylee.

PS – Hope you’ve got a special gate to allow the kids into the field while all the parents queue down the road.

Have found a space hopper! Great idea midlife and the bucket relay is also going to happen. Any more ideas folks?

Dizzy sticks!

A relay race, where each handover the next runner has to carry a silly item, extra large things that will make it tricky for them.

like inflatable dingy/bed, large beach ball, wellies, washing bowl with washing in, oversized cloaths, water bombs, ballons full of flour, empty 2L water bottles, etc.

Anything that makes them have to think a bit about how to carry all the clobber.

Add a few bales of hay to clamber over or car tires to step through, to make the going slightly tricky.

Have the runners who have doen their run, use water pistols in a section, to spray runners as they pass, well you get the idea 😉

Winner is the team across the finishing line with all the clobber 😉

we had an Olympics on our street a couple of Olympicses ago. Events included longjump in flippers, tug of war, spacehopper race, welly-wanging, and dunching.

My wife organised one of these the other week, kids were a few bit younger mind.

Javelin… throwing a couple of drink straws (pushed into each other lenght ways to make them longer)
Shot put … bean bags
Hammer … bean bags with string
discus.. paper plate
Standing long jump
Diving …. throwing jelly beans into a bowl …??? Kids loved it ???

Printed off a “certificate” for each child, that was filled in as they moved from event to event

Went down a storm, in a jumpers for goal post/ simple things in life kinda way

Happy Days, good luck

Can walking – start line, can of beans in each hand and toes on the line, straw between teeth. Toes stay on line, walk out as far as you can using hands and cans, place straw and walk back – furthest out wins.

Picking up kitchen roll tube – standing start, bend down and pick up tube in teeth. After each successful round cut 1″ off length. No use of hands or other support – good for hamstrings!

Wheel barrow races.

5 legged race – same principle as 3 but much more fun. Obstacles make it even betterer.

Plus a proper medals and podium is a must 😉

Javelin with paper aeroplanes, including making your own.

…spacehopper race, welly-wanging, and dunching

dunching must mean something else round your way 😯

One I remember seeing at a kids party that had everyone in stiches, was a blindfolded mummy run.

mummy starts by being blindfolded, then spun round three times, team member situated 15 yards away inside a marked off circle, have to call the mummy to them, once inside the circle, the team has to cover the mummy in a roll of kitchen roll or toliet roll, all the roll has to be on the mummy, none must touch the ground, mummy then spun three more times and again and sent onto the second team, who repeat, well you get the idea 😉

French Cricket.

Possibly with the “one hand, one bounce” rule.

Just take them to a BMX track and be done with it.

This all sounds great folks, many thanks for the ideas. I am not going to find out/look up what up dunching is coz it sounds very wrong….especially for children.

Did this in 2000 when I worked in a kids club.

‘skate board tug of war’ 2 people kneel on skateboards facing each other then tug of war rules apply.

‘Collapse’ 4 or 5 large boxes, children in teams of 2, stack boxes ontop of each other but one hand has to stay behind your back.

‘Decathlon’ mixed events such as 100m sprint straight onto hop skip and jump, throwing water bombs till you hit a target that kind of thing. End with a paper burst copied off gladiators, we used an old roll of backing wall paper, pre cut a cross in the middle.

‘land ski’ using skateboards and 2 strips of dowl (we had this bamboo stuff) negotiate between flags/cones, falling off 3 second penalty, we did this in the park on that foamy rubber stuff they put under play equipment.