Occasion

Traditional Games

Description

This game is played like traditional Leap Frog except the players leap over balloons instead of each other. This variation helps players avoid stepping on fingers.

Instructions

1. Divide the players into teams, and give each player a helium-filled balloon with a ribbon and weight attached.

2. Start with an extra balloon in place for each team.

3. When someone yells "Go!" the first player, with balloon in hand, jumps over the first balloon, places his/her balloon on the ground, and then returns to the line and tags the next player.

4. Continue until one team has placed all its balloons in a line. The first team to do so is the winner.

Another version is to give the players balloons and have them jump over each other, as in traditional Leap Frog, but when they get to the end of the leaping line, they have to sit on and pop their balloons. A winner is declared when one team has all its players in the leaping line and its last balloon is popped.

To make for a more challenging game, make the ribbons extra long. If playing indoors, remove the weights. If the balloon gets away from a player while trying to pop it, he/she will have to reel it in by the ribbon.