http://recreationguy.com/the-amazing-race/ the ramblings and insights of a youth recreation professional Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:36:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://recreationguy.com/the-amazing-race/comment-page-1/#comment-487 Curt "Moose" Jackson Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:44:52 +0000 http://recreationguy.com/?p=213#comment-487 Kim, when I run the Amazing Race for kids at camp I don't eliminate anyone either (the same goes for our Survivor week). Instead, the first team to finish wins. You can also have checkpoints throughout the week. Everyday, the team that checks in first (is in the lead) wins a little prize. The next day, have the teams start in order of their finish on the previous day. If you only have four teams it would be fun to have them choose a team color and put on some face paint. Just a couple of lines would do. Make sure the ages are fair. You don't want a team of 6 year olds vs a team of 14 year olds. Create each station or area as different countries. You'll need to come up with your own challenges as I don't know the layout of your area or what is available for equipment. I also don't know how many people you have for each team. Team building initiatives (like a blindfold walk), tasks, puzzles, etc. are what you want to focus on. Make sure that you have envelopes with the teams instructions at each challenge. Include some detours and road blocks as well. Also, read some of the comments here for additional ideas and help. And don't forget to check out my summer camp site (<a href="http://summercampprogramdirector.com" rel="nofollow">SummerCampProgramDirector.com</a>) that has a few more ideas you can use. <em> Comments are Closed</em> Kim, when I run the Amazing Race for kids at camp I don’t eliminate anyone either (the same goes for our Survivor week). Instead, the first team to finish wins. You can also have checkpoints throughout the week. Everyday, the team that checks in first (is in the lead) wins a little prize. The next day, have the teams start in order of their finish on the previous day. If you only have four teams it would be fun to have them choose a team color and put on some face paint. Just a couple of lines would do. Make sure the ages are fair. You don’t want a team of 6 year olds vs a team of 14 year olds. Create each station or area as different countries. You’ll need to come up with your own challenges as I don’t know the layout of your area or what is available for equipment. I also don’t know how many people you have for each team. Team building initiatives (like a blindfold walk), tasks, puzzles, etc. are what you want to focus on. Make sure that you have envelopes with the teams instructions at each challenge. Include some detours and road blocks as well. Also, read some of the comments here for additional ideas and help. And don’t forget to check out my summer camp site (SummerCampProgramDirector.com) that has a few more ideas you can use.

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]]> http://recreationguy.com/the-amazing-race/comment-page-1/#comment-486 Kim Sat, 04 Dec 2010 16:58:37 +0000 http://recreationguy.com/?p=213#comment-486 I am wanting to have a week of our day camp (ages 6-14) themed with the Amazing Race. I would like to have a mutli-day race and I would not like to eliminate the teams (4 teams total). We are limited to the park, and the community center/library. I am need some help with some ideas this will be the first one that I have tried to run. Any ideas and help would be great. Thanks I am wanting to have a week of our day camp (ages 6-14) themed with the Amazing Race. I would like to have a mutli-day race and I would not like to eliminate the teams (4 teams total). We are limited to the park, and the community center/library. I am need some help with some ideas this will be the first one that I have tried to run. Any ideas and help would be great. Thanks

]]> http://recreationguy.com/the-amazing-race/comment-page-1/#comment-488 Curt "Moose" Jackson Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:11:40 +0000 http://recreationguy.com/?p=213#comment-488 Patty, thank you for the comment. Patty, thank you for the comment.

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