Raymond Family Olympics

To celebrate the start of the Olympics, we had one of our own!

All of my in-law's were in town for a week and

we needed a good way to expend some energy in the kids!

I didn't get enough pictures of the events since I was leading the events.

I had the three teenage nieces decorate a banner that said,

"Raymond Family Olympics"

Instead of Olympic rings, we had Olympic hearts!

I made medals for every child that was there.

We cut them out, laminated them, and added red yarn for the necklace.

Click here for the Word file.

All you have to do is change your family name in the document
and print it out on cardstock.

You will need to trace the hearts with a marker once printed.
Here is the order of the colors (From left to right):
Blue - Yellow - Black - Green - Red

We started the evening with a BBQ from grill master Jon (my husband).

Here are the 4 events that we had:

1. Obstacle Course

3 cartwheels or rolls

army crawl under the rope (about 6 feet long)

zig zag aroundthe fruit trees

sprint back to the finish 

Whomever has the fastest time, wins

2. Water balloon toss

Secure 6 paper plates to trees to be used at targets

Every athlete gets 3 balloons and can throw at any target 

Whomever hits the most targets, wins 

3. Team water balloon toss

Everyone gets a partner and a towel

Each athlete grabs one end of the towel

A balloon is placed in the center

On the count of 3, they make the balloon fly in the air

The last team to have a balloon that hasn't popped, wins

4. Archery

Grandpa set this up since we have a bow and arrow for the grandkids

  

 This is one of our athletes receiving his medal

All of our athletes showing off their medals.

  Everyone had such a good time!

You could make any activity that you have space for.

These are just what we did.