

The powder will wash away in the rain, so it doesn’t leave a huge mess. It’s best to have the event in an open field.

Additionally, it makes for some great social media posts for your high/middle schoolers. It gets them messy, but not gross, and is easy to wash off. With tons of colored powder, you’ll play several games with a giant color fight as your closer. A Color War is essentially a color run without the running – well, not as much running. You might have seen this done at a summer camp or been a part of a Color Run. We also did buckets of water balloons.Written by Lindsey Horton, Young Life leader in Rome, GA.Īre you looking for a fun event to build momentum in your YL area this summer?ĭo you want a summer-time alternative to Clubble?Īlready planning for a big kick-off for August or September?.Make sure to leave at LEAST overnight and covered in order for them all to expand! It takes over 1 million water beads, or 20 of these. And they are not ask biodegradable as they appear they will leave a surface slick for a long time unless you wash them away. It takes SO MANY ORBEEZ to fill up a pool. Jello – don’t use real jello, use this fake stuff! One of these fills 100 gallons.Slime Baff – it took 20 packets to fill up a standard rectangle kiddie pool.

My favorite thing to call it is a “Mess-tival.” Here are some of the pools of mess we had: We opted for a “messy games” night versus a “color wars” because I just don’t love that term, to be honest. We set up pools of messy activities, as well as served messy food (without napkins!).
#Color war game free#
Here are the products you’ll need for about 60 people for 20ish minutes of free play (like I said, it goes quick! When in doubt, buy more): The most popular way to do color wars is with dry powder - and I like to use dry tempera paint. I’ve done color wars now 3 times, and here is our fool-proof way to do it! DRY COLOR BOMBS The color goes much more quickly than you might expect. How do you accomplish color wars? You CAN buy color wars pigmented powder, but it gets VERY expensive. Sometimes there is a charity run involved, where every mile a new color gets thrown at contestants! The goal is to get as messy and colorful as possible! Sometimes there are team competitions involved. What is color wars? Color wars consists of kids throwing different color paint powders at each other. As summer is around the corner, so is the excitement that it will soon be warm enough to do “color wars” again!
