Its only our second year planning and pulling of the community wide “Amazing Race” for our youth group, but i think I seriously feel like a pro. I was even telling a fellow youth leader we should do this as a job….plan amazing races that is.
Needless to say, it went well. The one negative I can pull from it is that we underestimated teenagers competition levels and needed to add more activities. In total it only took around 2.5 hours to complete and we anticipated at least 3. We did youth in a rural community, so we took advantage of our surroundings and what we had available.
This year the roadblocks/detours/challanges consisted of:
-Finding a clue hidden in a outdoor swimming pool
-Chasing a “message in a bottle” down the river to get the clue that was inside
- Carrying a team mate across the river without getting them wet.
- Completing a suduko puzzle
- Throwing whipped cream pies at a teamate until you found one that had a cherry in it.
- Leading untrained dogs through an obsticle course
- Creating a device of soup cans and a plank to get you down a hill and back up
- Hearding cattle and collecting the clue off of the back of one of the animals
- Finding the oldest tombstone at the cemetary
It was a blast!
