Tape & Crȇpe Obstacle Course

I’ve seen this idea a few times and can totally recommend that you try this Tape & Crȇpe obstacle course. What should have been a simple activity…

…took us an entire day to execute.

Incase you haven’t seen this, you string up lots of crȇpe streamers using masking tape and hey presto, you have an indoor obstacle course.  Not ones to turn down a time trial, our guys were keen.

So, this morning we all set off on the bus to buy the kit for said activity.  Into the pound shop we go to load up with a double roll of masking tape (£1.50, how marvellous) and lots of crȇpe streamers before heading home again.

To have lunch.

Then there’s a fairly heated discussion over which colour we should start with and the 8 year old girl spends ages devising a point system.

Which no-one can quite get their heads around.

‘Why don’t we tape some strips up and see how we get on?’ I say – keen to get the show on the road.

And so we do.

But then this happens:

Don’t worry says my husband – I’ll take the smallest to the DIY shop down the road and get some other stuff.  The 8 year old grabs her scooter and decides she’s going to go too so she can show off her new trainers.

To whom I’m not sure.

After an extremely short time, the doorbell rings.

She’s back.

‘I’ve decided not to go because it might rain and I don’t want to get my new trainers wet.’

NB: It appears that for another 25p you can get masking tape that actually works.

Finally the obstacle course is re-erected and a points system is agreed on: you work your way through it, rattle the letter box at the end and then work your way back.  Any tape that comes away from the wall is a 10 second time penalty.

The 6 year old goes first, breaks wind, loses his stride and a strip comes away from the wall.

Then our daughter has a go.  She’s like Dash from The Incredibles.  Strips of crȇpe ping all over the place.

The 4 year old (with Down Syndrome) has a go and giggles the whole way around the tape & crepe course.

‘Your turn Mum!’

‘I don’t think I can watch this,’ says my husband.

‘I’m SO going to be the best,’ I say, heading off to stir something on the hob. ‘Watch and weep!’

When I come back, the course has been changed such that you need to be cat woman to make it from one end of the hall to the other.

30% of my way along the course and I’m wanting to take a layer off.  I lunge at the letterbox, it falls apart and crashes to the floor.

‘That’s 40 seconds,’ says my husband.

Determined not to let it distract me into losing time, I continued bravely on.  I lift my foot somewhere near my ear to clear the strip before the finishing line.  I was so close…

I should have known.

The kids suddenly peeled off the finishing line and ran off with it…

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