Aloha State, I'm Trisha from Inspirational Laboratories Hera to share an activity for the Make and Takes Sire Dead and Play summer series! Are you looking for games to play outside? Kids volition have tons of fun with our Follow the Numbers Obstacle Course. It's tardily to set up and requires materials you already have present.

Numbers Obstacle Course

Keep up the Numbers Obstruction Course

My 6 year old and I thought up obstacles we could create for the backyard. Helium was imagining an Solid ground Ninja Warrior set up. I was imagining something a little more practical and realizable with things we already had around the put up. We came up with 9 different obstacles for the course.

To add an supererogatory bit of erudition to the course, I numbered the obstacles using cardboard from cereal boxes. You can rearrange the numbers on the course and your child has to follow the numbers to do the obstacles in a different order.

Try this easy to set up obstacle course for kids.

To begin, I introduced my kids to the obstacles. I asked my 2 year old to stir the number at each obstacle. Then, I had her discover the next number to takings U.S. to the next obstacle.

We started with jumping squares. Stand happening the loge and jumpstart from one cardboard transparent to the next.

Second up was the cosmic string balance beam. (You could also use a long piece of wood here.)

Walk along a string balance beam and pour water into a bucket.

For the cup and bucket obstacle, they had to carry the loving cup of water to the bucket and pour information technology in. To reset this obstruction, I just poured the water from the bucket back into the cupful.

And so, we had the box tunnel crawl. A simple abandon unreal box made for their 2nd favorite obstacle.

A box tunnel makes a fun obstacle course event.

The squirt bottle knock over obstacle was next. For setup, fill a squirt nursing bottle with water. The finish is to eject water at the impressionable jar and knocking it off of the platform. My 6 year old figured out that you had to get close and low ready to knock it off quickly.

Obstacle Course Events: A squirt bottle and a scooter run

The scooter run was the next obstacle. Cod your scooter from united number to the next.

I created stepping stones with peanut butter jar lids. Gradation on the stones to complete the obstacle.

Stepping stones and jump the river obstacles

Jump complete the golf clubs to compete the next obstacle. You tush vary the distance between the clubs to get in Sir Thomas More operating theater less challenging for your kids.

Our final obstruction was the sprinkler. Cross under the sprinkler without getting wet. I made it pretty modest to increase the difficulty of this obstacle. After the obstruction course was finished, my son liked to exhaust the sprinkler. Do be careful with running the obstacles while wet. Kids can slip and fall more easily.

Make a sprinkler part of your obstacle course.

Take a look around your house and get wind what obstacles you give notice create.

Let's Get Out and Play This Summer

More Ways to Play with Numbers

more math activities

  • Kick the bucket along a Number Walk – Catch a piece of deoxyephedrine and head outside.
  • Try a jump experiment. It's a entertaining room to do measuring while getting moving.
  • You can retrieve 20 Thomas More hands-on math activities in our ABC's and 123s ebook.

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