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How to Play: Greased Watermelon Polo
Filed under: Kids' Games, Activities: Toddlers & Preschoolers, Activities: Big Kids, Activities: Tweens
Rough it up with watermelons! Credit: Ron Dauphin, Flickr
How to play: The object of the game is to get the watermelon to the opposing team's pool wall. Spread the petroleum jelly or shortening all over the watermelon. Divide the children up into two teams. Each team gets an end of the pool, and each team should start the game at their end of the pool. Designate a referee, who will drop the greased watermelon in the middle of the pool. At that moment, both teams move to get the watermelon.
The rules: Players cannot lift the watermelon out of the water to move it. They can push it, swim with it, or kick it through the water. If a player moves the watermelon out of the water, play stops, and that team must return to their end of the pool. The other team gets possession of the watermelon at the point of the foul, and play resumes. Players can grapple and wrestle for the watermelon, but they cannot bite, choke, kick, or hit other players.
How to win: When one team gets the watermelon to touch the opposing team's pool wall, they receive a point. When a point is scored, the watermelon should be regreased for the second round. Play to whatever score you choose. The team who scores the highest points wins.
What else you need to know: This game can become rough, so the referee should keep his eyes open to stop any rough play immediately.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 2)
6-04-2010 @ 3:05PM
suninobx said...I can tell you as a pool owner, I WOULD NEVER let a vasaline or crisco coated anything in my pool...let alone having all that grease all over the kids too....whoever thought of this game is an idiot!
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6-04-2010 @ 3:19PM
piperworld said...Oh, lighten up. We've played this game in our pool at church youth events and the filters and chlorination take care of any oily film within 24 hours. Besides, you think you'd be less greasy if you took your kids to the Gulf of Mexico?
6-04-2010 @ 3:31PM
Tess said...I prefer "cleaner" entertainment! LOL! Http://www.artsandcraftssecrets.com
6-04-2010 @ 4:57PM
T. Roper said...Personally for watermellon games I prefer the watermellon roast. All you do for it is put a watermellon in the campfire and when it explodes, everyone runs out into the bushes and gets a piece.
6-04-2010 @ 6:44PM
dlfighs said...i've played this game once. not in a pool, but in a pond so we didn't have to worry about the grease. it was SO MUCH fun.
6-04-2010 @ 4:04PM
Cheryl said...What a cool game! Wish I had known about it when I was a youth director 10 years ago! We would have had a ball playing it as an ending to messy games! I am also a pool owner, and a little coating od vaseline or crisco wouldn't be a problem for the pool.
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6-13-2010 @ 11:35AM
Richard Swiniuch said...Paula, Why the hell don't you racists stay off the net. No one wants to read your kind of garbage. And I am not black.
Idiot!!!!!
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6-04-2010 @ 3:45PM
King David said...Hey Paula -- You simpy MUST STOP eating so much of what comes out of your nose!!! MORON!!!
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6-04-2010 @ 3:56PM
Phoenix said...My town pool plays this and various other games on the 4th of july. We call it greased pig. Other games are water polo, diving for pennies, etc. Its a very fun day!!
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6-04-2010 @ 3:56PM
JIM said...KING DAVID, DID YOU THINK THAT UP ALL BY YOURSELF??
ALSO DOES YOUR MOMMY KNOW YOU ARE ON THE COMPUTER AGAIN?? BADDDD BOY!!
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6-04-2010 @ 4:00PM
kim said...it's becoming more clear that paula lent a helping hand with this stupid a$$ed game
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6-04-2010 @ 4:48PM
jimbarry1946 said...Has anyone looked at the price of watermelons lately? If it gets broken open, what does that do to the water?
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6-04-2010 @ 5:01PM
mitchtheminister said...Actually, I think it would funny if you greased up grandma and played that game!
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6-04-2010 @ 5:45PM
Red said...Mitch
Don't give my grandchildren any ideas they do enough to scare me. Got to love them.
Red
6-04-2010 @ 5:00PM
T. Roper said...Probably less than peeing in the pool does.
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6-04-2010 @ 9:43PM
rcrandt said...This is the dumbest thing I ever heard of. Who's the idiot that came up with this. Apparently, whoever it is, they never tended a swimming pool! What a waste of watermelon.
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6-07-2010 @ 11:27AM
CHommerich said...The games sounds like a lot of fun...but when you actually play it, you realize that it is super dangerous. When people start throwing a heavy water melon into a group of people...it still count my blessings that nobody got killed. We actually stopped before somebody got killed. Do not ever consider playing this game! Is it worth getting hurt? There are many other fun games you can play!
6-04-2010 @ 5:12PM
Bleu Lorax said...This game is so wrong and the idiot responsible for writing this article shouldn't be allowed to publish anything else. Vaseline or Crisco is a pool? Are you serious? Anyone who thinks this won't make a mess in their pool is probably a slob. Everyone playing would need a shower after and if a watermelon is dropped, there's a good chance it will break.
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6-04-2010 @ 6:16PM
jon said...We used to play a game with watermelon. We placed an M-80 fire cracker in a hole in the side and lit the fuse. Its best if you record it and watch it back in slow mo.
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6-04-2010 @ 7:20PM
dodah001 said...Hey, all you Blacks out there...Here be sumtin else you can do wid yo watermelons...
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