Unmounted Fun Games Ideas please ?

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Hi, we are running a fun inter pony club 'Unmounted Games' challenge and looking at ideas for games.

Ideas so far are:
1. Sack race to the end, run back - relay of team mates
2. Stepping stones race & space hopper bounce back - team relay
3. Speed walk through weaving poles, apple bob, hunt for polo in icing sugar & run back - relay
4. Obstacle race : throw beanbag in hula hoop, run across stepping stones, jump over cone or hurdle - team mate to piggy back you back - team put into pairs ?

We'll have an audience so it'd be great to have some really fun ideas that the public would enjoy watching.

Any more ideas you can suggest ?
Many thanks !
 
Pretty much every gymkhana game is ideal. We had them carrying a plastic pint glass full of water on their heads. You ran to one end, filled up, put cup on head and went back. They had 4 mins, and the team with the fullest bucket won. You could hold the cup. Everyone was drenched.

Face paint race- run to one end, paint a chosen design on their face (no mirror) then run back.

Dressing up- oldest team member at one end, then each time someone runs up they have to put another item of clothing on the team member. Then they run back.

If you can get someone everyone knows to commentate, and have teams and keep them in their teams the whole time. It gives them more competitive spirit and makes the races like apple bobbing hilarious. For apple bobbing have a penalty if they can't get the apple- we had you had get your face wet, and then wait 45 seconds. It's a good rule for the little ones who can get a bit freaked out by putting their head underwater when they're breathless.
 
Here in NZ we can't run the Apple Bobbing because of the hygiene thing. And such a shame as it's so much fun

We have a great game here but it depends if you are able to get the right sweets. We use mini chocolate fish, they are fish shaped made of marshmallow and coated with chocolate. They are suspended by their tales on thin string or wool. There is one for each child and they have to eat them with no hands. They have to chew and swallow before returning to their team.

A sweet in some flour. Rather wasteful flour wise.

HI LO race
Anti Litter Race
Rope race, as per the mounted game without pony.
Aunt Sally/sharpshooters
Many of the games can be done unmounted, just make all the distances shorter so you don't exhaust the kids
 
tennis racquet and tennis ball race - from mounted games but do it on foot - have to run through the bending poles from one end to the other without dropping the ball off the racquet team relay style?
 
Run to other end of the ring, put on a pair of wellies, fill with water, and run back. The winner is the one with the most water left in their wellies, not the fastest runner.
 
Auslander said:
Run to other end of the ring, put on a pair of wellies, fill with water, and run back. The winner is the one with the most water left in their wellies, not the fastest runner.
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The trick for that is roll the wear shorts no socks because you then have no clothing to soak the water. :P
 
Wheelbarrow race was always a fun one, as it was so silly and everyone used to fall apart. Same for 3 legged races.

Can remember doing one in a team where you were a 'horse' and had to 'canter' jump a fence/obstacle and do 'around the world' (around a cone 3 times) and 'canter' back to your team. Winning team had a 'clear round' and got back the fastest :D
 
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