School Yard Games



School Yard Games

25 for a Tuesday Night?!  Awesome!

Arrived early to see if this AO that I’ve seen at morning darkness had some extra fun when seen in the light.  I was able to find a little something extra to add to the back half of the winkie.  (Great Job to Rae View Elementary for adding some fun paintings on the parking lot).

The weather was here and I wish the pax were beautiful (shout out to Jimmy Buffett).  Getting close to launch so quick DiCCS.  Lets Go.

 

WARM UP

Mosey around the parking lot.  Threw in some butt kickers, skips, karaoke and toy soldiers.  Circle up.

  • 15 Side Straddle Hops
  • 10 Merkins on my down and up.  Changed up the cadence a couple times to allow for more of a downward hold than the pax are used to.
  • Jimmy Duggan’s (with some mumble chatter from the SOB’ers as to what that was).  Thanks site Q’s for stepping in and helping explain.  Since kids were in attendance I was biting my tongue on the full explanation (AVOID THE CLAP!   ((Pour one our for Moneyball))).
  • 15 Mountain Climbers

THE THANG

short Mosey to the front entrance of the school where I divided us up Dad’s vs kids.  Sorry to the older kids who tried to sneak in with us adults….if  your under 18 your a kid (Deuces barely missing it).  Time for a Scavenger/Trivia Contest.  I would yell out an object.  First group to find it didn’t have to do burpees.  I would then alternate questions to the groups and if you got it wrong…burpees.

  • Find Alaska!  Rocky was out quick on the trail.   High Hat on his tail.  I believe the adults found it first so 2 burpees to the kids.
    • Adults: Capital of Alaska.  Some conferring amongst the Dads.  Juneau and Anchorage were going back and forth.  Final Answer: Juneau.  Correct!  No Burpees.
  • Find California!   Kids find it.
    • Capital of California: (with some help from Banjo – you damn cheater) Sacramento!   Kids got it right.
  • Find New York!   Dads find it.
    • Capital of New York: (I thought this may trip some up but apparently we have plenty of northerners who moved south)  Albany it is.
  • Too many right answers and not enough burpees – everyone do 2 burpees.
  • Find a map of the world!  Adults find it first.
    • Name all seven continents.  (Never have Wrigley on your team.  I believe he gave niner as an answer here).  Dad’s get close but repeat South America twice and no Australia.  Dads do 5 burpees!
  • Kids: Find Italy.  Got it (no burpees)
  • Kids: Find China.  Got it.
  • Dads: Find Lebanon.  Got it (Dang It).
  • Ok, Dads….Find Uzbekistan.  The Geopolitical/Geography major started zeroing in a little too close (and truth be told I didn’t know exactly which one it was) so before it could be pointed out (and I had no idea where it was right or wrong), I called time and Dad’s owed 5 burpees!

Circle up for Simon Says. I call an exercise.  If you do the exercise without me saying Simon Says first, you owe 2 burpees.  I honestly don’t remember all the exercises called and what was and wasn’t Simon says, but lets just say I’m pretty sure at one point or another I had everyone doing burpees.  The last one I said Ok, lets run over here for something else.  Half the group runs with me and Twinkle Toes looks at me a goes “Wait, we are done with Simon Says right?”.  I smile and say “Nope”.  Twinkle did his best Will Farrell mad at Norway impression.    Now “Simon Says run over here against the curb”.  Simon says game over.

 

Red Light/Green Light bear crawls.  If I catch you moving – 5 Merkins and 5 crawl bears.  I crawl bear’ed with a head start and the pax had to catch me as I yelled green light/red light.  (Note to self, there are some fast bear crawlers).  Twinkle took an early lead so I intentially called a quick red light to catch him moving and slow him down.   I forget who won – Trickle maybe?

 

Mosey to the Rock pile.  Keep teams split for adults vs kids relay race.   One person at a time runs.  Adults run a big loop (about .25 miles) while kids run a smaller loop (about .17 miles).  I had hoped to give the kids a slight advantage to keep it fair but apparently I underestimated their speed.  While there was one runner, pax alternated between the following:

20 curls, 2o triceps, 20 presses for runner 1

20 Merkins and 20 Squats for runner 2

Back to Curls, triceps, and presses for runner 3…..and keep alternating.

 

Kids took an early lead, but quickly lost it when Cat Nip arrived on two wheels.   1 Adult added to our team and 3 kids added to their team (Yes!!!).  Don’t get too excited….the kids still smoked us.   So bad that I made them run 3 extra segments….and they still smoked us.

Rocks up.  Spread the kids and Dads out again.  Gave the Dads a 20 foot advantage (that neither knew about).  Find 4 squares with Dots painted inside…..Great job by Trickle…kids do 2 burpees.

TWISTER

I found this on my scout.  4 squares with the exact order of 6 dots in each one.   Hmmmm, that kinda looks like a twister board (light bulb).   We took turns putting 2 kids vs 2 adults while the rest cheered on while doing exercises.  Exercises were plank, LBC’s, gas pumpers, mountain climbers, and Merkins.   I think the Dads did most of the burpees as we were not as flexible as the kids.  I even cheated and gave some of the older kids harder positions….still no falls.

Couple minutes left.  Partner up with someone you are not related to.    It can be kids with kids or adults with kids, but you can’t be related.   Partner 1 starts crawl bearing (backwards) up the hill to the fence.  Partner 2 runs to curb and back and swaps with P1.  Keep going until you are at the fence.  Gather the 6 and then Repeat except for bear crawl down the hill.

30 seconds left.  Burpees.  We got through 5 before it was time.

 

MOLESKIN

  • What a wonderful night.  Weather was perfect.  Great group showed up and I think everyone had fun.
  • I’ve got to get my daughter out there more.  She loved it.  Thursday Softball practice kills Clyent Dinner but the Appetizer is squarely in our schedule.
  • Shout out to Magi who I met for the first time tonight.  Apparently the F3 Lawson marketing team is working overtime as he learned about F3 Sanctuary from a sign at Lawson.
    • His son an FNG was named Deuce as he is a tennis player (Bottle Cap getting excited).   Since he was 17, we tried to keep it tame but I really wanted to go Sharapova (maybe a name change when he turns 18).
  • Great Job by Cat Nip finding us and then jumping right in to be our final runner for the relay.  He had a lot of ground to make up for us and…..sorry this isn’t a happy ending…he didn’t come through.   But we didn’t lose any ground either!
  • Great leadership out of the older 2.o’s tonight leading the kids group.
  • My daughter was expecially preturbed at the lack of trivia questions for the younger kids.  “Dad, we haven’t even covered states yet, much less capitals or countries!”.  Dually noted babe.  I’ll do better next time.
  • Always love working out with Rubbermaid.  Great to see him and his 2.0 roll up.
  • The Pack is on and its getting to be bed time for the little ones so I will leave it there.  Thanks again to High Hat for Q swapping with me and dragging me out to Appetizer.  I really enjoyed tonight.

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