Family Days

On arrival
On arrival we could offer a real lunch box/ treat box. Neatly labelled and filled with yummy goodies. Possibly a packet of chips, a cool drink and some tasty sweets. Parents greeted with a great selection of hot coffee.

We propose offering the following food for the day:

• Spit braai or Boere wors rolls, burgers, prego rolls and chips
• Setting up a Beer garden area with beers, ciders, soft and a few good bottles of wine.
• We could offer a mixture of waters, soft drinks and alcoholic beverages – all served in bottles or cans.

Just for fun it would really create a carnival atmosphere by providing a:

• Soft Serve / Ice cream Lollies Station
• Slush puppy station
• Popcorn machine

For the little ones

Professional Creche
We propose the hiring of a professional crèche, for kids up to 5 years (Allowing parents to have fun and to relax).They will be kept entertained with age appropriate activities all day. It includes:

• Setting up a mini play ground with jumping castle.
• Tables and chairs for activities
• Live entertainment such a clown, magic show, puppet/story show/ balloon blowing/basic face painting and tattoo art.
• Varied snacks and juice all day.
• Balloon’s and decorations
• Painting, play dough, drawing, puzzles, finger paint and other age appropriate crafts.
• Care area provided for sleepy babies and play mat for toddlers who would like to be in on the action.

Kiddies activities

We propose setting up a creative activities interactive workshop, for kids up to the age of 12 years. Focusing on crafts and activities not only gives the children great satisfaction whilst doing the craft but also provides them with the opportunity to make their friends and families handmade gifts of their own. This is very special to them and the receivers of the gifts.

Craft activities you could consider include:

• Plate decorating | Hat decorating | Book marker making
• Sand Art | Candle Making| Hand puppet making
• Magnet making| Sweet decorating| Beading
  Mosaic Frames| Puzzle Painting| Graffiti Wall
• Card Making| Chocolate Decorating| Fabric painting

It goes without say…children of all ages love inflatable’s, jumping castles and pure Traditional party games too.

• Stuck in the mud | Musical chairs |Tag
• Musical Statues | I wrote a letter to my love
• Pin the tail on the donkey | Bobbing for apples
• Relay races | Flag sprints
• Find the smartie in the flour bowl, then marshmallow in the syrup etc

*Alternatively an interactive professional treasure hunt, mobile animal farm or mobile Snake, Bird or Bee Demo may be something you would consider for the occasion.

Live Entertainment you could consider may fit to the theme of the day and can be selected from:

• Clown|Magician| Balloon blower | Face painting
• Tattoo artist| Bubble Machine | Scaletrics (Small cars)
• Pony rides (Small ride) | Camel Rides (Big ride)
• Traffic for kids with motorized cars, police man, road and signs (Big cars)
• Mini train (Small locomotive) | Tractor ride (Big locomotive)
• Toy carousel | Horse carousel | Mini Ferris wheel
• Foam party Area | Kids mechanical horse rides
• Dunk tank | Slippery slides | Inflatable go cart and track

For the teenagers and adults

We stage a variety of “different” sports competitions.  These are more traditional sport activities, but they are facilitated in such a manner as to keep them social and not overly competitive! They are played first before moving onto Suikerkaskenades/Silly olympics. And aim to gently invite mixed groups of participants to enjoy sports games and potentially compete.  We suggest choosing a few of following sports or games:

Social Sports

• Mixed Volleyball – 3 men & 3 women – Great fun and very interactive
• our Way Volleyball – 3 men & 3 women - is chaotic, exciting and fun and can involve up to 60 players at once
• 6-a-side Soccer – The beautiful game is always well supported at fun days
• Softball – Always great fun and a great sport for men and women
• Touch Rugby – A way for the Super 14 spectators to get some action
• Netball – A bit like Touch Rugby, just for the ladies
• Frizbee Soccer – Similarto netball and soccer yet using a Frizbee
• Human Foosball Challenge

Silly Sports

• Bale Pushing - Let the games begin! Team relay race pushing large bales of straw.
• Wheelbarrow pushing - Against the clock - blindfolded driver being guided by passenger through an obstacle course.
• Straw Tossing - Individual task - using a pitch fork to toss a sheaf of straw over a bar.
• Puc Fada - Individual task using a hurley stick to strike a ball.
• Welly Throwing - Everybody's favourite - throwing wellys over a distance.
• Tug 'O' War  - The big team challenge - testing team strength and co-ordination using a large rope as team pulls against team.
• Turf Stacking  - Has your team got the engineering skills to set a new record in this challenging event. Not as easy as it looks!
• Hourican’s Challenge - Oran O'Hourican has left your Team an encrypted message. It is up to you to decode his hidden message, and release his Pot of Gold from the Tree Tops above.
• Drinking Competition - Depending on the social vibe Sportsman facilitates a host of fun games

Suikerkaskenades

• Obstacle Courses - Teams transport water (in leaky Buckets) across a large inflatable obstacle course to offload at the other side.
• Gumboot Race – A team relay race, over a slippery tarpaulin and obstacles, using Gumboots (on your feet of course) as the chosen method of carrying water.
• Rubber Rope Soccer - A set of rubber ropes keeps you off-balance while you move across the wet surface to score a goal – with hilarious consequences.
• Tug –o – War (on Water slide) – The very popular Tug-o-war, but on a slippery Tarpaulin.

“Boeresport”

• Egg Throwing – Team throwing and catching before the egg is dropped
• Human size Jenga – Big, bigger, biggest building blocks built into towers. Unstable blocks end in tumbling towers.
• Water Gauge relay – Teams work together beginning with a large vessel and pour water into smaller vessels repetitively in order to transport as much water as possible and fill their teams water gauge
• 4 legged racing - Three participants, one backwards, tied at the legs
• Land Skiing - A team-building game using wooden skis to complete a course
• Sack Races - Good old-fashioned sack racing
• FrogIsland– getting from one point to another devising bridge maps to complete a course.
• Puzzle Mania – competing to get shapes to resemble images
• Arm wrestling
• Apple dunk