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Firefighter Race - A Water Game for Kids and Teens!

A fun water relay race for kids, teens, and adults
Prep Time10 minutes
Active Time15 minutes
Author: Melissa Haines
Cost: 30.00

Equipment

  • access to a water hose

Materials

  • A large sheet of Plastic Sheeting - I found a roll of 10'x25' on Amazon that worked perfectly!
  •  ground stakes
  • 4 buckets same size. I found mine at the Dollar Tree
  • Soap - With younger kids, I'd worry about it getting into their eyes. You could use "tear free" shampoo to help resolve that problem
  • 4 or more Players - The more the better divided up evenly

Instructions

  • First, stake your plastic sheeting down on all 4 corners (you can cut the sheet in half so teams are separated)
  • Squirt the soap out over the plastic sheeting
  • Spray water all over the plastic sheeting and the soap to get it sudsy and slippery
  • place 2 buckets on one end of the slide - near the corners
  • place 2 more on the other end - near the corners
  • Fill 2 of the buckets that are on the same side with water
  • Place a cup in each filled water bucket and have kids line up behind it into 2 even teams
  • When you're ready, kids should scoop a cup of water out of the filled water bucket and run as fast as they can to the empty bucket to fill it
  • They want to run fast, but if they fall - they risk spilling their water and they won't have any to fill the empty bucket with

Scoring

  • You can time the race and yell stop when the time is up. Look to see which team's empty bucket has been filled up the most
    Or - you can let them go until the teams run out of water and see who has the most in the bucket they were filling up