Sponge Relay

Thanks very much to Jane Maddin, who posted this game to the Guide Mailing List!

Equipment: 2 basins per team, and a sponge per team
Number: teams of 4-6
Ages: 5 and up
Category: Outdoors
Source: Mary Appleton, 12th Pathfinders, Calgary

A full basin is placed in front of the team and the empty one is positioned 20 paces away. One at a time the girls soak their sponge in the full basin and run up to the empty one and squeeze it out. Then they run back and hand (toss) the sponge to the next person in line. You can do this until the water level in the far basin reaches a certain point, or until the closest basin is empty, or until everyone on the team has had a turn, and then measure the water in the far basins to see who has moved the most water over. (Variation: Do this one handed.)


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