Basket Hurdles Balloon Obstacle Race

Making these hurdles are fun and easy! You just need 2 laundry baskets per hurdle and some kind of dowel or stick or broom handle to stick through the slats.

To play the water balloon obstacle race, you first need to fill up a bunch of water balloons and get a tablespoon (used to carry water balloons) for each person.

The object of the game is to get the most water balloons in the basket at the end by going over the hurdles. You can assign each player a balloon color in order to easily count at the end of the race. You could also set a timer so they are forced to run over the hurdles, making it a harder race than if they are allowed to walk it.

Have fun!

Try It Tuesday: The Best Homemade Bubble Recipe EVER!

This recipe is simple and uses 3 ingredients and it's CHEAP! First off you need dishwashing liquid. Don't use the nice natural vegetable based kind, that does not work well at all to make good bubbles to blow, believe me, I've tried. I want to be eco-conscious but there is just some things it doesn't work for. So, go to the Dollar Store and buy a big bottle, this is going to last you a long time too. Next, go grab the corn syrup from your pantry and head to the kitchen. The corn syrup really is the secret ingredient!

Homemade Bubbles

1 qt. water
1/2 C dishwashing liquid
1/4 C corn syrup

Stir all together and pour into containers. Have fun!

I have been re-using the same glass jars year after year to hold my bubbles in and to store all our bubble wands, but you can use whatever container you have or a plastic one if you are afraid of glass breaking.

If you have some kind of shallow dish or pan you can put bubbles in the bottom of that and make a big circle wand out of an old wire hanger so that you can make big bubbles. And you can use smaller wire that is easier to bend into small bubble wands. Be creative, look around your house and find things with "holes" in them that you can blow bubbles through.