Create Your Own Obstacle Courses

Obstacle Courses provide hours of fun and physical activity and they can be created inside or outside by adults or children. Parents could make an obstacle course outside and surprise their children or families could work together to make a course everyone can enjoy. Remember the obstacles must be doable for the youngest member of your family. Number one is to find a safe place to make your course. Moving between or through obstacles can involve running, hopping, jumping, crawling, crab walking, holding a ball between your knees and even singing while you do it! The only limit is your imagination. The courses can be run over and over and timed if you want to add this element. To keep the competition down, have each person continue to try to beat their own best time.

Outside Obstacle Course Materials Ideas:
hula hoops - to jump in and out of
hoses - to make circles or lines to hop through and over
wading pool - to jump in and out of
large card board box - to crawl through
inner tubes - to hop in and out
ropes - to lay out paths or hop over
chairs - to quickly sit in or run zigzagging between several
yard sticks or pieces of wood - to walk and balance on
pool noodles - made into circles with tape, made into half circles to slither through or arranged upright to run around and through

Indoor Obstacle Course Materials Ideas:
pillows - to climb over
balls - to hold between knees walking from one point to another
broom - can be used with 2 chairs to crawl under
chairs - sit down and quickly get up
small objects  - to zigzag between
hula hoop - jump in and out of
yard stick - jump over
pool noodles - jump over