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How to Make Your Own Double Dare Obstacle Course

When you're looking for something energetic and entertaining to do, creating your own recreation is an ideal option. Whether you're trying to occupy kids during school vacation or you want to generate some excitement for your fitness group, you can create an obstacle course outside mimicked after the Nickelodeon television show Double Dare. With a few simple supplies, you can set up a Dare-worthy course that challenges players to compete in a homemade version for prizes.

Things You'll Need

Hula hoops
Plastic sheet or water slide
Soap
Whipped cream pies
Table
Jumping ropes
Medium sized balloons
Index cards
Markers
Team prizes

Instructions

- 1
  Choose your course location. Decide if you'll hold your challenges in your backyard or go out to a park for some adventure. If possible, select a location that has diverse obstacle elements, such as an elevated hilly area, trees and flat surfaces.
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  Narrow down your activities. Commit to three dares, four trivia questions and allow the rest of the three or four challenges to be based on running the course. Use varying difficulty levels, depending on the age and endurance of the participants.
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  Separate dare challenges with the actual course activities. Purchase eight to 10 hula hoops, a large plastic sheet to use as a slide, whipped cream pies, several jump ropes and balloons. Use index cards and a marker to write a few questions for the trivia cards such as, "What color eyes does [one of the contestants] have?" Write out a few dares on the index cards too such as, "Take off your shirt and put it on backward."
- 4
  Place each of the activities several yards away from each other, so there is a distance between them that the contestants will run to. If you have limited space, give yourself at least 15 feet or so or move some of the objects to another area, like the front yard.
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  Create stations for each area by laying the objects out. Lay the jump ropes in a pile, set the creamed pies on a table, lay the slide out and put soapy water on it and fill the balloons with water. Place the hula hoops side-by-side in two rows, so you have a hoop for each foot to run through.
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  Use the trivia and dare cards in between each activity and place them in a location between each of the activity stations. To run the game, have contestants divide into two teams and run the course by hula hooping 20 times without stopping, answering a card, sliding down the water slide, committing a dare then jumping rope 50 times. Finish the route with trivia questions and dares between eating a whole creamed pie with no hands and catching water balloons with the contestant's partner only using one hand. Celebrate by providing teams with prizes.

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