Barefoot Party Games

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Want to stand out from the crowd at your next party?

Then how about trying out these barefoot party games? They are loads of fun, and are sure to get a ton of giggles from the crowd when you explain the instructions.

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Catch the Ice Cube

Materials Needed:

Small wading pool
Ice cubes

Instructions:

Divide into two teams (or more if you have a lot of players.)

Choose one team to go first.

Have someone watch the clock for 60 seconds.

Have team 1 get into the pool. They can stand or sit.

Say go! and throw 20 large ice cubes in and see who can take the most ice cubes out using only their feet in the designated time period.

Then have the other teams try.

The team who got the most out is the winner!

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Don't get your feet wet! (A Beach Game)

Materials Needed:

A floating object (like a ball or frisbee)
Breaking waves at the beach

Instructions:

All you need to play sandpiper is something that floats and is easy to grab with one hand.

You need to be at a beach with breaking waves.

To begin play, one player (it doesn't matter which one) throws the float out into the surf.

All the players then wait for the waves to carry it in to shore close enough to grab.

The trick is to avoid getting your feet moistened by an incoming wave. If the incoming wave wets your feet, even if you successfully grab the float, you lose one point.

In addition, once an incoming wave wets you, you cannot make another grab until the next wave.

If you grab the float without getting wet, you get five points.

If more than one person grabs and retains a hold on the float, each one gets two points .

It is legal to wade into an outgoing wave to retrieve the float, but beware of the next incoming wave!

If it gets you, you lose that point, even if you get the float.

Whoever finally gets the float tosses it back out to sea and play starts again.

To be in play, the float must get tossed, or carried by waves, far enough seaward to be carried back shoreward by wave action.

The first player to total 25 points wins.

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Basketball-style rules of checking apply:

If you hold your ground, a player who plows into you to get the float has fouled you and gets no points.

If you give ground to your opponent, you have lost that ground.

Once a player has fairly grabbed the float, however, you cannot block that player in to force them to get wet.

If a player grabs the float but gets wet because of being blocked in intentionally, that person still gets five points.

So try these barefoot party games on for size- we are sure they will fit just fine!

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