You will need:

• a large play space (preferrably outdoors) on a warm, sunny day
• a start line and a finish line
• a plastic cup for each team
• 2 plastic buckets for each team

What to do:

• tell children that they are going to race to see which team can get the most water from their first bucket into their second bucket
• show children how to fill their cups with the water in the bucket
• demonstrate walking quickly from one bucket tothe other and pouring the water into the second bucket
• children may take as much or as little water as they like on each trip
• game ends when one group has comletely transferred all their water from one bucket to the other
• at that point, measure both of the buckets of water to see which group got the most water in their bucket, the fast group or the slow group
• declare a winner by the group with the highest level of water in their bucket