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The Dads & Daughters Togetherness Guide: 54 Fun Activities to Help Build a
Great Relationship
By Joe Kelly,
President of Dads & Daughters
Download as a PDF
SPOON BALLOON
Inspired by Catherine Winter and Chris
Julin
You’ll
need:
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A round balloon inflated by
mouth (not helium)
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Wooden spoons
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Rope or string
Spoon
Balloon is an off-the-wall (sometimes literally), indoor combination of
badminton, tennis, and volleyball. The wooden spoons are your racquets and the
balloon is the ball.
Find a
relatively open space in your home. Across the middle of that space, string a
rope, string, or anything else that can function as your “net.” Tie the ends to
anything that works: furniture, stair rails, doorknobs, etc.
Choose up
teams and give every player a wooden spoon from the kitchen. The object is to
hit the balloon back and forth across the “net” without letting it touch the
floor. If the balloon touches the floor on your side of the net, then the other
team gets 1 point.
With that
simple set-up, you can create variations in the rules to suit your fancy. For
example, you can:
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Use the volleyball rule, which
says that each team is entitled to a maximum of 3 hits (in addition to
blocking) to return the balloon – and no single player can hit the balloon
2 times in a row.
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Allow shots that bounce off the
wall or furniture, as long as the balloon does not hit the ground.
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Prohibit shots that bounce off
the wall or furniture, scoring them as points the way you do when the
balloon touches the ground.
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Allow more players on one team
than the other.
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Play singles.
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Play until one team gets 21
points. Or 10. Or 30. You decide!
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Make up any other rules that
all the players can agree on.
Spoon Balloon is
just as much fun for adults as for kids!
Make
sure that the playing area is cleared of fragile items that might get knocked
over or broken by an errant swing of a wood spoon, or by someone falling over
trying to get a shot (or falling over in uncontrollable laughter).
Click
here to pre-order a copy of The Togetherness Guide, available April 24, 2007
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