Alka Seltzer Waterfight

We played it with selzer tablets from a dollar store. We didn't put holes, we clipped the tablets with a clothespin and strung yarn through it and around the neck. We used plastic cups instead of water guns and put out 2 large trash cans filled with water. We put cones around the cans and this became a safe zone. The kids loved it, we had about 50 kids.

i love the idea

I love the idea of this game but I was kind of leery of using Alka Seltzer because we'll be playing this at a Jr. Camp. I decided to get blank white notecards and make a big dot on them with sidewalk chalk and then tie that around their neck.

Is there a cheaper option than heart burn tables? I'd really like to do this but there could be 20 to 50 kids.

You should get these to spice it up http://www.neatgeek.com.au/item/223/Water+Wars/

i think you should tie them round legs so faces dont get squirted

Please be careful with this. Once the alka seltzer started melting, it started burning some of the kids and they had red marks from it.

How do you drill the hole for the string? What tool do you use? I tried to use a needle so I could thread the string, and I ended up breaking a ton of tablets trying to get a hole put in it. Has anyone tried any other ways to attach the tablet?

Ars Technica recently posted an article on this game! Has some more ideas in it also.

"For more fun? Put the tablets on your arms and legs, and if you get hit in one and it starts foaming, no more use of that limb."

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/07/water-warfare-two-ideas-to-improve-water-gun-fights.ars

We played this game and the youth got bored of it pretty quick. If I did it again I would make sure I had really high powered water pistols and/or a smaller tablet because otherwise it takes to long.

to make it more interesting, instead of the tablet being around the neck. you can make them wear ladies stocking over their heads and hv the tablet at the end of it. really really funny with the stocking!

Yeah I agree, some of the comments are fairly unhelpful especially when there is no alternative or reasons with the comment. I generally do keep an eye on these kind of things. But on the flipside... I guess everyone is entitled to their opinion in the end?

Joel, I think you should prevent completely unhelpful comments such as "stupid game" from being posted. If people don't have any useful advice, concerns or ideas then we dont want to hear their negative vibes! What kind of youth gets "bored" in a massive water fight? seriously....

Stupid game and kids get bored!!!!!!!!!!!!

When we played this at a camping trip several years ago, the kids loved it. Their only complaint was that it was difficult to get the tablet to fall off. We decided to offer "hand grenades" aka water balloons next time to make the game move faster.

we are defintely going to use this for are church picnic

Sounds like a really good idea for like a overnighter

Wow - this sounds like a great game for my youth groups philip island camp this year :D
run around on the beach :)