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Garden Obstacle Course

Your home and garage is filled with objects that can transform your garden in to an exciting obstacle course. To keep the kids motivated time their laps with a stopwatch.

Read on for some obstacle ideas. #ReadyforLife

LADDER

Lay the ladder flat on the floor and get the kids to do knee ups, stepping only in the gaps between the rungs.

TYRE

An old tyre can be wheeled from point A to point B.

HULA HOOP

Hold up for the kids to jump through.

WHEELBARROW

Push the wheelbarrow from one point to another.

ROPE

Loop rope into circles to jump from one circle to the next.

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