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Description

Make your own set of lawn darts and play with your friends.

Resources

Some gathered sticks
A sharp knife
Two different coloured plastic bags
Rope or hula hoops
Cones
Some modeling clay (optional)

Instructions

Make the darts
Find several straight sticks, about 30cm long and 2 to 3 cm in diameter. You should aim to collect six sticks that all roughly all the same size and width.
An adult should carefully sharpen each stick to a point. If older young people, such as Scouts and Explorers, are doing this, a demonstration and safety advice should be given by an adult first, then the activity itself should be closely supervised.
Tear or cut the plastic bag into at least three strips.
Tie the strips to the blunt end of your darts. These’ll act as a tail, helping to stabilise the dart’s flight
Sort your board
Using some rope, create three or more circles on your lawn. These will be the targets. You could also use hula hoops.
Using cones or another piece of rope, mark a throwing line about 10 metres away from the circles.
You should agree the number of points that each target will be worth. You could write these on a piece of paper and put it next to the circle to help people to remember, too.
Choose someone to keep score. This could be a young leader, adult volunteer or young person.
Play the game
One at a time, each player should stand behind the throwing line and throws all three of their darts and attempt to land them on the target.
To score points, the dart must both be in the circle and be sticking into the ground. It shouldn’t be flat on the ground.
You might need to add some modelling clay around the dart at the sharp end, but not over the point. This will help to add some weight to the dart and help the dart fall in the right direction.
Once all the darts have been thrown, the player should add up the points and
The person should remove their darts before the next player goes. An adult should supervise the collection of the darts to make sure the playing area’s completely clear before throwing begins. Alternatively, an adult could collect the darts after each through.
Make sure any observers are well away from the playing area and, again, make sure the playing area’s completely clear before throwing begins
The winner’s the player or team who scores the most points.

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