Games on the beach or in the garden

Bailing water:For that you need 2 large buckets and many small cups. Line up in 2 rows on the shore. There should be about 5–10 m between each child. At the front of each line there is a basket with the cups. At the end of each line there is a large bucket. On the signal, they start. The first person has the cup in hand and runs, fills the cup with water, runs to the person behind them and hands over their water. That person runs to the next, and the first fetches the next cup full of water. The last person pours the remaining contents into the bucket. The winner is the one who, after a predetermined time (stopwatch), has the most water in their bucket or when a team has no more cups left.

Collecting beach litter:When your beach party is over, there's another game called 'collecting beach items.' The things that were scattered around during the day don't belong there, and it's a given that everything will be tidied up as if there had never been a party.

Fast fleet:Everyone folds a paper boat and rolls a piece of paper into a blowing tube. On the signal everyone sets their boat in the water and blows as hard as they can. Whoever's boat reaches the opposite shore first wins.

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