How Set up a Fun Chalk Obstacle Course for Kids

Set up a chalk obstacle course for your kids with these fun and simple activities.

I love to have activity ideas in my back-pocket for those days when my kids get tired of entertaining themselves.

If these activities are easy to set up and hold my kids attention, then it is a solid win for everyone.

I have three active kids. Active is an understatement. Sleeping seems unnecessary to my kids who are both night-owls and early risers mixed into to one. They prefer jumping and flipping around to sitting.

Although I love their spunk and energy, it can be quite exhausting to keep up with them on a daily basis.

This simple activity takes minute to set up, and will keep them actively entertained for long periods of time.

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Chalk Obstacle Courses

Chalk obstacle courses are like hopscotch on steroids. They will keep your kids engaged and active, and they couldn’t be easier to set up.

What You Need:

Chalk
Hard surface
Active Kids

Set-up Instructions:

Use your own creativity and keep in mind the age of your children while you are setting up your course.

First, set up 3 different wings of the course.

To keep your kids interested, each wing should be a different theme. Some examples of themes you can use include:

Exercise and agility
Alphabet or math
Silly activities

Exercise Course

For the exercise wing, include quick workouts for your kids. Such as:

Do 5 push-ups
Do 10 jumping jacks
Do 5 burpees
Jumping from circle to circle

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Educational Course

Depending on your kids age and abilities, set up math or reading obstacles.

For example, for my 4 year old, I set up the letters A through Z and he had to follow around in order. For my elementary age kids, I had math problems that they had to answer before moving on to the next section.

Silly Course

This was my children’s favorite part.

Some examples include:

Crawl like a baby
Walk like a penguin
Hop on one foot

Lastly, at the end of each course, write in chalk to “Go to [another section]” to keep the cycle going.

How to Play

To add an extra element to this, I had the kids start by throwing a rock at 3 targets. Whichever target they were closest to indicated what wing of the course they started on.