I am looking for some unusual field day games to add to what we do already, tug of war, egg on a spoon, pie eating contests.. so if you have any ideas please share them.

There are so many games to choose from that it can give you a headache! We are struggling with the types of games to have at our Field Day. We are definitely having an obstacle course and tug-of-war. We are thinking about having a game where the kids will have to ride on tricycles. Water balloon toss is another idea. Good luck to you!

In the past we have rented a bounce house, juggling (scarves/small juggling balls), water slide (homemade) we lay a tarp on the grass leading to our lower field have two volunteers spray water from the hoses and coat the tarp with liquid soap. Other ideas; face painting, we have a local soccer team so we asked the players to give advice/autographs to kids, clowns that did balloon figures. This year we are bringing in a local tae kwon do instructor and a local reptile guy. Hope this helps. Good luck.

Our school is a 2nd -5th grade building with 15 classrooms. We played games and other outside activities. We had a Wacky Olympics theme and used an inflatable obstacle course and tricycles as part of a triathylon. I found this great website for theme ideas: http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/fie...s/fielddaysindex.asp

Here's a bunch of good ones that we use:

- See if the town police would be willing to bring out the speed machine or radar gun. If so you might be able to have a fastest pitch or kick station.

- Hull-Hoop Chain. Split the group (or have two groups) hold hands in a circle. The first person has to take a Hulla-Hoop and guide it to the next person in the chain without using their hands (Hull-Hoop starts on the joined hands between the first child and the last). Then so on until it gets back to the starting position. Possibly have these timed and post the results.

- Bouncy Ball Relay.

- Sponge Race. Simply have a bucket of water on one side with an empty bucket on the other. The empty bucket should have a level goal mark. First child dips their sponge in and races to squeeze it out into the empty bucket, then races back and gives the sponge to the next in line. Keep going until the level goal is reached.

- Parachute, bubbles (use a swimming pool), chalk

- Tattoos

Also this year, since we normally get over 100 parent volunteers anyway, we're looking at possibly combining our annual barbeque to Field Day. This way we might get even more parents to attend and they would only need to take one day off to enjoy both activities.

-PresidentJim

For our field day - we have tried with LOTS of participation and success...

popsicle eating contest, 3 popsicles each kid, fastest time wins,

big mouth contest (students had to be nominated for this event) high # of

cheetos in your mouth w/o chewing wins,

watermelon toss - 2 people per team toss to each other at 3 feet, 5 feet, 7 feet, etc. last team with an undropped watermelon wins,

then using the dropped watermelons, new teams & pitchers with volume marks on them, juice your watermelons contest, fastest team to reach the mark with watermelon juice only wins (need a strainer, screen, collander over the pitcher to catch chunks - also could use a sand bucket from DollarTree instead of pitchers)

and best of all - waterslide from hardware store 100' x 20' clear plastic runs about $40 run it down a hill, soapy water, sprayed constantly with hose from teacher/volunteer. Hope these work for you!!!