Fun Outdoor Games to Play for Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day is usually spent with your friends and family. You are outside grilling steaks, burgers, and hot dogs on the grill while catching up with friends and having a few good laughs. If you are looking to spice up your holiday weekend try involving games into your celebration this year that everyone can play together and enjoy. Here are three creative games for children and adults to play this Labor Day weekend.

Scavenger Hunt

Get the kids and adults working together in teams or split up everyone individually for this great game. Scavenger Hunt can be set up ahead of time before party goers arrive for the celebration.

What You Will Need
-3x5 Index Cards
-Magic Marker

How To Play
Have everyone figure out a Labor Day mystery story or have people gather Labor Day related items. Write clues on the index cards and give everyone their first clue to begin the hunt with. You can have people gather all different kids of Labor Day items and decorations. The first person or team of people to gather all the items is the winner. You could do a Labor Day mystery story where people gather clues and figure out the final question. Take your guests on a history of Labor Day and where the holiday came from during your Scavenger Hunt. Include your yard and house for people to roam around and find new clues.

Telephone

This is a game that has been around for a long time. However, let's put a Labor Day twist on it this year and add it to our holiday weekend. You can sit around the picnic table or in lawn chairs and play. This game can be played with children and adults.

What You Will Need
-Sentences about Labor Day
-Past Labor Day memories

How To Play

Whisper something in the person's ear who is sitting closest to you. That person then tells the person sitting next to them and so on. See if your sentence is the same as when you told the first person. Try whispering past memories from other Labor Day weekends with family and friends. You could also gather Labor Day weekend facts and tidbits to whisper as well. Be creative and watch the laughter start to flow.

Sand or Water Relay

There are several variations on this classic game. You can use sand, water, dirt, sugar, bar-b-q sauce, or just about anything you can imagine that is hard to hold onto. Try having people use their hands, spoons with slots, or cups with holes in them to carry and pass the item from person to person.

What You Will Need
-Buckets and containers full of sand or water
-Plate or bowl, one for each team
-Something for guests to carry the sand or water in if they are not using their hands

How To Play
Break your Labor Day party guests up into teams of 4 or more. Line the people up with a bucket on one side of the line and a plate at the other. Have people grab a handful of sand and pass it to the person next to them. That person then passes it to the person next to him until the handful of sand eventually makes it to the plate. Whoever has the most sand on their plate at the end of your time limit is the winner.

Tip: Get gifts for the winners of your games. Get items that are appropriate for your guests ages and genders.