Divide into small groups of 5 to 7 people. Each group is given supplies to make a burrito racer… frozen burrito, 4 wood screws for axles, 4 washers for wheels, toothpicks, raisins, celery, carrot, etc. Be creative with the items to decorate the racer. For the race, get 2 12 ft. plastic rain gutters (these double for ice cream troughs later in the year). Lift both rain gutters to the same height and let the cars go. The burrito racers tend to fall a part but that’s half the fun. (those words were stolen from a website that i would credit if i could remember what it was)
then we had a kind of white trash pit crew character come out and introduce the "main event" a chair race. we had set up a race track through out our building with duct tape (we did this before club) complete with obsticles and such. we divided kids into three equal teams and then brough in our wheely chairs complete with crazy outfits. the way that it worked was that the person sitting in the chair had to have the costume on and the person pushing the chair was blindfolded, they were pushed around the loop track that we set up and then before the next group on the team could go they had to have the costume and blindfold on. it ended when all of the groups on each team had done a loop. it was pretty chaotic but very entertaining to watch.
lastly we had a little race against the clock. we had two kids come up and gave them like 30 seconds (or maybe a minute) so see how high they could get a stack of oreos using only their mouths.
here is a video from the last three clubs i talked about (we did them all in sept of 2007).
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