Relay Races

• Relays need enough participants for at least two teams. Relays are fun because they involve individual as well as team competition, The team performance depends on each individual doing their best. If your teams are too large, however, relays can get boring, because the rest of the team is just waiting while one member goes at a time. Plan on splitting your group into small teams, so the wait won't be so long. Five players per team is ideal for most relays. You shouldn't have more than 10 people on a team.
  
  There are hundreds of familiar relays that you can use. You can also create as many varieties as you can imagine. A basic relay race simply requires participants to run to a designated point and back. They have to tag the next team member on the hand before the next person can go. You can add any activities you like to the relay course, such as carrying an object that cannot be dropped, like an egg on a spoon, or accomplishing a task at the end of the relay, like filling a bucket with water. You can also have each member of the team travel in a different way -- the first person could run, the next walk, the next hop, and so on.
  
  

Field Games

• Field games are another type of outdoor challenge game. Many are traditional team sports, such as baseball, soccer, volleyball and football. You can make them more interesting by adding creative twists to the games. For example, play blind beach volleyball by using a beach ball instead of a volleyball and hanging a tarp over the volleyball net. The players will not be able to see the ball until it comes to their side, so they won't know where it's coming. Another creative twist on a traditional game is Ultimate Frisbee, which is football played with a Frisbee instead of a ball.
  
  There are many creative types of field games that are not based on traditional team sports. One example is Capture the Flag, in which two teams compete to steal the other team's flag from behind a barrier. You can also create field games based on other types of games. An example is Human Foosball, a type of soccer in which players link arms in a row and stay within the boundary for their row, just as the pieces do in the table game of foosball.
  
  

Individual Challenge Games

• If you don't want to divide into teams, or you don't have enough players to create teams, you can also play individual challenge games. For example, you can create a timed obstacle course where players have to accomplish different activities at each station such as climbing over obstacles or jumping rope a certain number of times. Time the players as they go through the challenge course individually. The one who completes the course in the fastest time wins.