Whole School Half Term Junior da Vinci Challenge
Create your own obstacle course!
Keep yourself active this half term by creating your own obstacle course in your home or garden.
Plan, design and complete your obstacle course and send your ideas into your teacher by Friday 23 February ready for a display.
You could photograph or video yourself completing this course – what is your record time? Can your friends/siblings/parents complete it as well? What about as a team?
Here is your task outline:
1. Choose your location – ask parents where a good place would be to build your obstacle course.
2. Plan your layout – you need a start and finish line and a stopwatch to see how fast you can complete the course. Make sure you include obstacles for climbing on, balancing on, crawling over/under/through. Make sure you draw out your plan of the course.
3. Collect the materials – think about the obstacles you are going to need, cardboard boxes, benches, skipping ropes. If you have a climbing frame or trampoline are these included as part of your obstacle course?
4. Set up the course – place your obstacles and walk through each activity to check that it is safe.
5. Create a story – use your imagination to bring the obstacle course to life, are those really pillows or are they the backs of turtles to get across the shark infested water? Is that skipping rope on the grass really a tightrope across a ravine?
Send in your plan, and some photos or videos of you completing your obstacle course to your teacher.
