I brought the hamburger patties and they brought everything else! The Y staff helped with set-up, cooking, and paper goods.
I set-up some games to play while they were waiting for lunch to cook. I had volunteers to run the games. When a participant played a game they were given a mark on the back of their hand with a permanent marker. When they had played three games and had three marks, they went to another volunteer who let them chose an award. I chose candy as an award because it is close to Halloween. This is what the awards looked like:
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| Finished Awards |
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| Cut, staple & tape on candy |
To make the awards, I cut a 30 inch piece of ribbon (Yes! 30 inch so it would fit over their heads!) Then I stapled the ribbon and taped on the candy. Really easy and they liked them!!
One of the games we played was kicking a beach ball through a hula hoop. Here's what it looked like:
I took the staples out of an inexpensive hula hoop and opened it up. Then I needed a way to stake it so that it would stay upright. My husband came up with the idea to tape a screwdriver to each end like this:
It worked great! I used a beach ball so that it would not be too easy. The beach ball can go too high if they are not careful!! We gave them each 5 tries. Most got the ball through 3 times. Only one got it through 4 times!
They threw golf balls into a basket and moved a marked cup from the top of a stack of 50 cups to the bottom. They had one minute to see if they could move all the cups and get it back on top. One person moved 47 cups. She was just 3 away from getting the marked cup back on top!!
We gave prizes to the winners of each game. A local pumpkin farm had donated some pumpkins to the Y and these made great prizes!
We also had a singing contest to see who could sing Glow Little Glow Worm the best. I had given them the words a few weeks before the barbecue. We had fun!!
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