We had an end-of-the-summer water gun fight in our backyard last week. It was great fun – 11 boys, 100 degrees and everyone of them armed with some sort of water artillery.
We did a couple of games which just meant a slightly more organized chaos. They were:
- Freeze tag – the person who was “it” tagged by shooting their water gun at the person. And, subsequently, a player could unfreeze another player by shooting them again.
- Alka Seltzer Tag. We strung Alka Seltzer tablets on a string that the boys wore around their neck and you had to shoot the other players Alka Seltzer tablets. The object of the game was to keep your Alka Seltzer from disintegrating. We referred the Alka Seltzer to your “life” like on a video game…it seemed to make sense to the boys more.
- Target Practice. We set up empty soda cans on the clubhouse deck and the boys shot their guns to see how many they could get down.
- And then we played “zombies”. This was tag but when you got tagged, you turned into another it.
