Water Games Balloon Water ball Hard to prepare but really worth the effort and use good quality balloons too. Fill a balloon with water and when I say fill I mean to just it s unblown size. so less than a cup of water. Tie knot in the neck. Now slip it inside another balloon not easy but worth it. Blow this balloon to about two thirds and tie neck. Now go play catchy. or in a simpler (but probably not so long lasting) version Try blowing up a balloon and then pouring a small amount of water into it, then tying it up and tossing it to each other. Its behaviour is remarkably erratic! Balloon water bombs Another favourite of our girls is to fill balloons with water, either until they burst OR till about the size of a tennis ball, then throw (rule is away from people)! The only downside to this activity is collecting all the little bits of broken balloons what a mess! Works best on a hot summer afternoon. Keep the balloon up The simple rule of the game is to keep patting the balloon to keep it up in the air. You cannot pat the balloon twice in the air and the balloon must not touch the ground or any other horizontal surfaces. Count the number of pats from the start to whenever someone pats twice or lets the balloon fall and see if you can increase the number each time you play. Iceblocking You wet the path that the ice is going to slide along. Put a hessian bag on top of the ice. Sit on it. Get somebody to give it a bit of a push. Hold on. Slide. Cherie B Large block of ice from ice works or make your own. Towel or sacking to fold into a pad to put between block and your behind (to minimise a wet behind). Sit on your vehicle and head off down the slope hadn t thought about using a rope leaning and change of weight seemed to cater for steering. Need a nice grassy slope. Suzie Balloon and Cup race Girls in a circle. One cup of water and one balloon. The girls pass the cup one way and the balloon the other as fast as they can. The aim is to keep the water in the cup but inevitably it doesn t. With bigger groups we have played it in relays (several circles) to see how much water each team can keep in the cup. Walk Through the Tyres Each team has a full and empty bucket. The aim is for each team member to fill a cup with water and walk/run through the tyres, holding the cup of water, and tip it in the empty bucket. I m sure
other obstacles could be found. The team with the most water wins. 2 Bonus points for winning. 5 points for each ½ litre the aim is to get more water Water planks The whole team (except one) stands under a plank. The team has one full bucket of water and one empty about 5 metres away. The left out team member then fills a cup with water one for each team member and balances him or her on top of the plank. The whole team must move from one bucket to the other, empty their cups and run back and get more. Going over obstacles is good also; even the brownies handled walking over a seat/form. The winner is the team who has the most water in their bucket after 5 minutes. 2 Bonus points for winning. 2 points for each 100 mls the aim is to get more water. Water Bomb the Clowns Each team has one bucket of water, a clown face and 10 water bombs/sponges. The aim is to fill the water bombs/sponges up and get them through the clown s face or hit the clown on the face. 5 points for every one through. (Note: I have two boards made up with clowns painted on them with a hole for the face, someone puts their face in the hole) Water bottles The team has one full bucket and one empty. The team must full the bottle with water while it is held on above the first person head then pass it over everyone s head and empty it in the other bucket. The person who empties it in the second bucket then fills the bottle up on the second person head. The team with the most water in their bucket after 5 minutes wins. or when everyone has had a turn at a bottle being filled over her head. 2 Bonus points for winning. 2 points for each 100mls the aim is to get more water. Oil Spill Game Divide the girls into small groups about four works best. Each group gets: 1 pie plate/bowl/basin/etc. of water (the ocean ) 1 cup with a small amount of dish detergent 1 empty cup 1-2 paper napkins (serviettes) 1-2 small sponges 1-2 drinking straws A leader pours an oil spill (darkly coloured oil, eg. olive oil, looks best) onto each group s ocean. The group s task is to clean up the spill. For older girls, you can have leaders be weather (blowing through a straw = wind, a water gun = rain), interfering with the girls progress. After a set period of time, have the girls get together to discuss what did or didn t work for them. It gives them a whole new understanding of how difficult it really is to clean up an oil spill. Water Cycle Race Equipment Needed: a bucket of water and a Veggie Ziploc Bag (the ones with holes in them) for each team Players: In teams of five Divide the girls in teams of 5 in a line quite widely spaced. Place the bucket of water at the start. The girls within the line are also spread far apart. On go the first girl takes and fills the Ziploc (she is the Cloud) and twirls while advancing to the next girl. She passes on the bag. The second girl is
the Mountain. She runs the bag of water to the third girl, who is the Rain. The Rain hops on one foot to the fourth girl, who is the River. The River and winds her way zigzagging to the next girl and passes on the bag. The fifth girl is the Ocean and she takes the bag and Waves all the way back down to the bucket (at the beginning of the line). She fills up the bag and is now the Cloud.(the previous first girl is now the Rain) get the picture? The girls have to listen to the directions as they will have to remember what they are and the action for it. They will get lots of encouragement and cheering from their team! The relay continues until the first girl or cloud is the ocean and waves her way down to the bucket. Everyone gets a bit wet the Waves have a great time! (Actually EVERYBODY does!) It s an amusing hands on way to understand the water cycle. Water Pollution Game Materials: Paper and pencil for each camper Dixie cup for each camper Water for the Dixie cups 7 Q-tips for each camper 7 large plastic cups sugar baking soda vinegar sprite or 7-up salt peppermint extract Instructor Preparation: Set up seven stations as follows : #1 water with sugar dissolved in it #2 water with baking soda in it #3 plain water #4 water with vinegar in it #5 flat sprite #6 water with salt dissolved in it #7 water with fruit flavouring in it Directions: Pass out the paper, pencils, and Q-tips to each girl. Also get each girl to take a cup of water to sip between stations so that they can clear their palates. Have the girls use a new Q-tip for each station. At each station, the kids dip their Q-tip in the liquid and rub it around on their tongue. They should then guess what is in the liquid and write down their answer on the paper. The girls should NOT discuss their guesses with each other. After each station, each child should take a sip from their glass of water and then proceed to the next station. At the end of the exercise, discuss with the group what they thought was in each of the glasses and give out the right answers. Then go on to talk about water pollution and drinking water safety: Water can look clean and pure but not be as it appears. Water can have bacteria, parasites and other critters that can make us sick. Our water supply uses filters and chlorine to kill these things, but some are too strong to die even then. When we
are out camping we can boil our water for at least ten minutes to kill most of these or we can use special water purification tablets that you buy at camping supply stores. Water can also have chemicals in it that we can not see. Some of these chemicals can make us quite sick. Others may have effects on our body that we don t know about for a very long time. It is very difficult to get these poisons out of the water once they are mixed together. Some people s water does not come from water treatment plants but instead from wells. Even if big treatment plants are able to remove the poisons from the water, people who own wells could not. Even if we take the poison out of the water we drink, we still may get some if we use it to water the animals we eat. There are two main ways that poisons get in the water: 1) They are applied to the ground and seep into the ground water or run off into lakes and streams (herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers these include mosquito spraying, washing the car, and killing the dandelions on your lawn). 2) They are thrown away in places where they will automatically go into the water system (e.g. flushing old medicine down the toilet, pouring paint down the storm drain, using harmful chemicals to clean your bathtub.) Bubble Games Bubble Mix (from Craft Exchange) 1/2 cup dishwashing detergent 4.5 cups water 4 tablespoons glycerine (from the chemist) container with a tight-fitting lid Measure everything into the container, GENTLY stir the mixture together. If a foam forms gently skim it off the top. Take 40 inches of string thin. Pass it through two straws knot ends together to make a square. Hold the two straws one in each hand and dip into bubble stuff in dish pan. Wave in air to make giant bubbles. Have girls wear rain coats as they get wet. Lots of fun for the park. * Experiment with washing up liquids and soaps to discover the best recipe Bubble Maker 1) Take a polystyrene disposable cup. 2) Cut a circle out of Clear contact paper bigger than the opening of the cup 3) Cut small slits in the edges so as to make the circle fit properly onto the cup and put over mouth of cup so it is sealed. Also put a rubber band around the top to keep Contact in place 4) pierce a hole in the bottom of the cup and about 12 small holes in the contact. 5) dip the contact into a detergent solution 6)Blow through the bottom of the cup and watch the bubbles come out the other end Cod Haddock Plaice players are given names cod haddock plaice around the corcle. The leader calls out the names of one, two or all three of the fish. They move around the outside of the circle to a series of commands.
the sea is clam 9walk steadily) the sea is rough(jump up and down) the tide turns (change direction) when the leader call out sharks players continue in the same direction around the circle as quickly as possible back to their own places.