How to Make an Autumn Leaf Obstacle Course

The air gets cooler, days get shorter and leaves peacefully coast to the ground. Those are all signals of autumn arriving and with the new season comes new outdoor games. Since leaves are a huge part of the fall, implementing them in activities and games is a blast. Try out an autumn leaf obstacle course. Both adults and children will love this fast paced challenge that uses just the leaves in your yard.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Leaves
• Bags
• Construction paper
• 2 tennis balls
• Two rakes
• 2 small buckets

1. Rake as many leaves as you can. Almost every section of the obstacle course uses leaves, so the more you have, the better. Create two paths so people can race head to head.

2. Use yellow, red, and green construction paper to create large leaf pattern designs. Set these up in random order to start the course off. Racers must hop across each paper leaf.

3. Fill 6 small garbage bags with leaves and set them up about 4 feet apart with three to each path. Each runner must jump over the bags of leaves.

4. Put a bucket and rake on each path of the obstacle course. Each racer must rake up leaves and fill up their own bucket before proceeding to the next part of the race.

5. Make two medium piles of leaves, one for each path. Throw the tennis balls into a random spot in each pile before the race begins and when the racers reach the area, they must dive into the pile and retrieve the ball before they can move on.

6. Lay out a few garbage bags to leap over and then end the race with a sprint towards a huge pile of leaves. Whoever jumps into the large pile of leaves first is the winner.

7. Think of more obstacles that you can add into the race. If there is no room, then you can create one path and run time trials for the course.

[goldiec]

on 9/23/2009 This sounds like so much fun! Thanks for the tips on How to Make an Autumn Leaf Obstacle Course! I've been busy decorating for fall and Halloween. I love this time of year! 5*