?d :;::;r.ti:i:=="r.:1,: il=* Fleld Day aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa rom frieds playig i the park to couies competig agaist oe aother at the Olympics, games uite us all. Ad Girl Scouts have bee ivetig their ow games sice rgrz! I this badge, you'll experiece this firsthad by orgaizig teams ad evets for a excitig, do-it-yourself field day. Steps 1. Team up ad dress up 2. Host a historicalgame 3. Play a scietific game 4. Fid fu i fictio 5. Stage yourgrad fiale! Purpose Whe l've eared this badge, l'!l kow how to orgaize a field day filled with frieds ad fu. FIELD DAY
STEP ITeam up ad dress up Your field day is a team competitio. tdeally, you should have at least four teams with five players each. Each team should have a ame ad a captai to explai rules ad keep thigs orgaized. Use this step to gather your team (see sidebar for ideas). The, as a show of team uity ad to get everyoe excited, pick oe of the choicesto help you createa uiform. chorces- DooNE: Go, Blue! Go, Red! Oe great way to make each team stad out is to color-coordiate them. You might host a captais'meetig before the competitio ad have a radom color raffle. Each team must dress i the color its captai draws. OB aa.a aaa.oaaaaa aaat aaaa. a. a aa aa aaa a Uique uiforms. Host a T-shirt-makig party before your field day kicks off. Ask everyoe playig to brig a plai white T-shirt to decorate with markers, fabric paits, sparkles, ad aythig else that represets your team spirit. OR aaa aaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa aaa aaaa a a a a a Theme costumes. Give each team captai a set of rules for costumes -for example, they should't cost a lot, ad players eed to be able to ru ad jump i their outfits. The let each team's imagiatio ru wild! (How great would it be to watch a team of superheroes competig agaist a team of cowgirls?) J Getpumpedupwith ateamcheer. Have each team ivet a team ame ad a team cheel the kick off your field daywith a "cheeroff"!
GAMES. PTANNING CHECKTIST You'll eed about two weeks to orgaize your field day. After pickig a date, use this hady checklist to make sure you've got everythig i order. Call each team captai to cofirm times ad fialize details. Check the weather. If it's lookig bad, V T\roWeeks Before Start scoutig locatios for your field day. If you eed to reserve the space, do so ow. Begi recruitig teams, team captais, a field day first aider, ad adult helpers. Decide how ad whe you'il make costumes (see step r). Fialize the ruies ad requiremets for at least two games. If you eed equipmet, start gatherig it ow. If you eed to test your rules or isuctios for a game you've created, do it ow.* *TlP: Talk through game safety with a kowledgeable adult (like a physical educatio teacher or coach). They might have equipmet tips as well-a small budget ca go far with a big imagiatio! Oe Week Before Fialize the locatio for your field day. Create a pla B i case of bad weather. Fialize teams ad host your f.rst teamcaptai meetig. Fialize the rules ad requiremets for two more games-or more if you have additioal evets. Gather equipmet; test game rules. Optioal: If you're goig to have a opeig or closig ceremoies, pla them out this week. If you'il have awards, begi makig them. cosider activatig your pla B. Pack a first aid kit ad pla for emergecies. Make sure you have water ad eough cups/ bottles for everyoe competig. Optioal: If you're goig to serve food, shop ad prepare today. Make sure ay awards are fiished. Game Day Trasport everythig you eed to your field at least a hour beforehad. Gather everyoe competig. Thak them for comig, ad briefly ioduce all the games (give fuil rules just before each game starts). Wear a whistle, ad let people kowthat if they hear it, it's time to come back together. Ask if there are ay questios. Make certai everyoe kows where to fid importat thigs like the first aider, bathrooms, water, ad suscree. let the games begi-ad have a great time! After the Games Clea up. Put all ash is i proper receptacles, ad take away aythlg you brought. Thak everyoe who helped you make your games a success.,,=a, oo" I a
{$EOtYMPIe.e The Olympics first bega i Olympia, i aciet Greece, likely aroud 7OO BC. Early competitios icluded wrestlig, ruig, ad chariot racig-ad wome were ot allowed to compete i ay evets. Today, the Games are hetd i a ew locatio every two years, i alteratig seasos. Athletes from almost everyatio itheworld compete i moretha 3OO evets. Occasioally, ew evets are added to the Games, but oly after the lteratioal Olympic Committee approves them. Wome's boxig will be ioduced at the SummerGames i2o12- -,,.:;:: ir.air.:, Hosta a historica! game Make the first evet a blast from the past! pick a game or evet that used to be played but is't popular aymore. The give it a moder twist (ad explai to everyoe the historical ispiratio behid your giame). lf you're havigl ouble comig up with a evet, talk it overwith yourgym teacher or researchgames from the past. chotces - DooNE: A amazig race. Re-create a historical racig evet. For example, the aciet Greeks ad Romas could't live without their chariot races. You could replace the chariots with wagos filled with stuffed aimals. Each team could take turs pullig the wago, stoppig to replace ay aimals that fall out alog the way. OR aaaa a aa aa aa a aa aaa.. aaao. aaa a aaa aa a Target practice. Everyoe from Egyptias to Alaska Iuits held archery competitios. Create your ow target game by settig up ro objects-soda cas, dolls, paper bull's-eyes sug from braches-ad seeig how may I objects players from each team ca hit with a water balloo or teis ball. OR a aa. aa. a aaaa aa aa a.. aaaa a aa a a. o. o.. Tests of segth. From hammer throws to log-tossig competitios, the scottish Highlad games are famed for their segth competitios. Create your ow match of mightl Perhaps you could challege teams to kick a soccer ball or throw a Frisbee the farthest? Create a mii Olympicswithi yourfield day. _Kick thigs off with a roud of three games ispired by \ evets from the origial Greek Olympics.! /) - /\ -- --\ 1\.^N S a _9J. {! _ ---.t* 4"['.'c
STEP o 3 3:?J"tiricsame Givethe ext bigevet atyourfietd daya uexpected twist by gettig players to exercise their brais with a uique, sciecebased game. lf you're stuck yigto desig a wiiggame, y speakig with a high school sciece teacher-they,tt tikely have pletyof greatideas. chorces - Do one: Cosuctio challege. Oe popular cosuctio project is the egg drop, where teams get idetical amouts of saws ad tape to create a protective shell for a egg. Drop the egg from escalatig heights, ad the team whose egg remais ubroke the logest wis. Fo Mo*r FUN: Make this a team-build.ig activitythat starts before the f,eld day. Every team mails you a potato chip. ope the packages at the field day-the team whose chip arrives ubroke wis! OR aaaaaaaaaaaoaaaaoaaoaaaaaoo.aaaaaa (, soar wiers. challege each team to create a flyrg object! you could give each team a idetical piece ofpaper to create a paper airplae, ad whoever gets the logest toss wis the game. or maybe the challege is to create a water-balloo catapult? (Girl Scouts i r98o staged a kite-flyig cotest to ear their World of Today ad Tomorrow badge.) OR aaaoaaaaaaaaataaaaaaaaaaaaaa.aaoaa Make it'flik.,, A "fliker" is a fu ame for a object that does,t float to the top or sik to the bottom of a cotaier of water-it stays i the middle ad "fliks." See which team ca make a object flik for the logest time. Each team eeds a plastic, see-through cotaier fliled with water (Iike a wide-mouthed two-liter bottle), somethig to be the fliker (like a packig peaut or cork), heavier thigs to attach to the fliker (like washers, peies, beads, or paper clips), ad somethig to attach them with (sig, waterproof tape, or pipe cleaers). C/
STEP 4il?f,tffi, Now it's timeto makefictio a realityfor a amazigevetthat your competitors might have read about or see played, but ever experieced i real life. Your challege is to brig to life a fictioal game from a favorite book, movie, TV show, sog, video game, or other source of ispiratio. chotces - DooNE: From read to reality. Pick a game from a book ad fi.d a way to tur it ito a competitio. For example, everyoe kows about Quidditch from l}re Harry Potter series. But util someoe ivets a flyig broom, Muggles eed to fid aother way to play (see sidebar). What about amig someoe as Sitch ad turig Quidditch ito a game of tag? OR aa aaaaa a a aaa aaaa a aa aa aa a''t'''' t'' From virtual to reality. Pick a favorite video game ad tur it ito a fieldday evet. Take the arcade classic Pac-Ma, for example. You could make a maze filled with teis balls to collect. The team that collects the most teis balls without beig tagged out by "ghosts" wis! OR aaa aaa aaae aaa a aaa a aaaa " t " " " "' From board to reality. Tur a favorite board game ito a field-day sport. For example, how would you tur Scrabble ito a evet? Oe way would be to create a pile of cardboard cutout letters, ad challege each team to create as may words as possible i two miutes
STEP -.+-::'+::::+:.i;i-i; :r \i s;::faiffi., v Ed yourcompetitio with the w i I d est, c ra z i est eve t yet-a wa c ky'1i-'::.:==::==.;=-.5i petathlothat requires every competitoro everyteam to take part. A petathlo is a evet made up of five differet competitios. Your challege? Create a five-step ed to your field day that the world has ever see before! chotces - DooNE: T A puzzle petathlo. Combie speed ad smarts with a series of five puzzle-based challeges. You could start by havig captais race to put shuffied decks of cards i umerical order, the have the ext team member build a foot-tall house of cards. You have plety of ways to gojust pick puzzles that ca be completed relatively quickly. OR aaaaaaaaaaaaaa.a6aaacaac.a.soaagea A relay petathlo. There are dozes - if ot hudreds - games. Your challege is to pick flve that work well i order. O the first leg, you could make players race while balacig a egg o a woode spoo. The teammates could parter up for a three-legged race, followed by a 5o-yard dash with books balaced o their heads! OR aaaaaaaaaaaaaa aea.a ao.. a Awheel petathlo. Get pulses racig-ad competitors laughig-with five wacky wheelbased evets. You could start with a icycle race, with oe player from each team required to pedal a lap o a tiy icycle. The you could move oto the likes of a scooter dash followed by limbo o..j roller skates or a uicycle challege. of wacky race Opeig ad Closig Ceremoies Nowadays, itseemsthe Olympics areas popular for the spectacle ofthe opeig ad closig ceremoies as they are for the idividual games. Perhapsyou ca add exa excitemet to your day of games by icludig these ceremoies. Maybea opeigceremoywhere competitors ioduce themselves ad show off their uiforms, a closig dace party, ora potluck barbecue cookout? U A l0oth-aiversary petathlo. Old hadbooks ad Girl Scout alumae are the perfect resources to fid five aditioal Girl Scout games, sogs, or other ispiratio for your petathlo. Maybe a roud of Kim's game, a super-speedy sig dow, ad a kot-tyig challege ca start off I your petathlo?!,,,a,-o oo",