Play outside!
Goal
- Be the last one with (the most) water still in your cup.
Setup:
- Give everyone a cup of water.
Begin:
- Raise your cups and yell “Last cupful”.
- Raising your cup lets everyone know you are ready to play.
Lose
- Spill your cup of water.
- Once you have no water in your cup you are out for that round (not allowed to attack anyone else).
Win
- Bump or
- Scare everyone else’s water out of their cups.
Rematch
- Refill cups.
- A big o’ bucket of water makes this easiest.
Details
Equipment
- Paper cups.
- 4 oz “Dixie” cups.
- A bucket of water: because refilling is much faster when everyone can dip their cup in to restart.
House rules:
- A large open space that can get wet is best. Anywhere you would have a waterballoon fight.
- Get everyone to agree to clean up after you play.
- Hold your cup in the palm of your hand with your fingers outstretched.
- When playing with little ones (1st graders) let them just hold the cup.
- For an extra challenge place your cup on the back of your hand.
Variants:
- Informal teams?
- Formal teams?
- Someone with a larger cup?
Did not work well
- 4oz paper “Souffle” cups:
- When filled with water these collapsed into disks too quickly. Kids only got one round out of the cups.
Credits
Created by Randall Li.
For my kids: A ‘n E
This game was inspired by Johann Sebastian Joust
Versions
1.0
First published version.