Cups Up!
I learned this game from a group of Guides I visited in Melbourne, Australia. What a perfect game for a hot summer day!
Materials: A cup and spoon for each player, a large jug of water for refills.
Everyone sits in a circle with a full cup of water. At "GO", players scoop the water out of their cups using their spoons, and slurp it up as fast as they can. Whomever empties their cup first yells "cups up!", at which point everyone must turn their cups upside down over their own heads! Of course, whomever has the most water still in theri cup will get the most wet. The victor gets the jug of water and refills everyone's cup for the next round.
Note: when we were playing this in Melbourne, it was a hot, hot, HOT day, and it seemed to me that the girls were having a wee bit too much fun accidentally spilling water - out of the jug, out of their cups... you get the idea. Definitely a great game for cooling down.
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