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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 2 of 2)
6-04-2010 @ 7:23PM
Tim said...don't forget the 40 ounce bottles of Colt 45's!!
6-07-2010 @ 8:21AM
Caselyn said...Sounds very messy but kinda fun. At first I thought the pool was supposed to be empty lol.
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6-04-2010 @ 7:56PM
mannamedjoe said...Paula, Don't you ever get tired of bashing the President of The United States? It's obvious you are not American, no decent American would make a comment like the one you just did about President Obama. Also, just what makes you think you are better than he and his family? From you moronic, racist comment, I can only come to the conclusion that you are a freakin' Natzi. Go back to where you came from, Americans can do without you and your kind!
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6-04-2010 @ 8:00PM
blahblah231 said...Since the watermelons probably not going to get eaten use Icy-Hot instead of vaseline. It won't make a mess in the pool and gets really slippery in the water. When I played h2o polo sometimes we would coat our selves in Icy-Hot as it makes much harder for somone to get a hold of you.
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6-04-2010 @ 8:25PM
Dusty said...The Obama type? Again here we have a moron trying to look intelligent.
That is one thing that the "Obama type" have and that is a complete and fully functional brain. In other words, they are intelligent and smart too.
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6-04-2010 @ 9:11PM
colleen said...Richard, I agree in some ways but if you really want an interesting read, click on the link attached to her name where it says "Paula" in blue letters. You can read all of Paula's comments (there are so many though) and they will let you know just how whacko she is. She actually writes as a woman, or a man at times unless her husband signs on as Paula too. At times she tells stories about her son, then tells the same story as if it were her grandson. She says she is 50 ish, lives in Maryland, has a gay nephew they disowned (but he only wears an earring and in her world that makes him gay), she hates Obama and says her neighbor named their dog "Amabo" which is Obama backwards, but then she later says in another post that her neighbor named thier dog "Hussein" after Obama. She is simply looking for any opportunity to bash Blacks, fat people (her words), gays etc. She is a tea party member, lives on a dead end street in Maryland and leaves her garage door open all the time.She also states she is a Christian and goes to church every Sunday but I think she only said that so she could say her Preacher bashes Obama. They enjoy making wine and going on cruises where there are no Black people or Spanish people. Her dad was a Baltimore cop and she implies that he killed people and threw bodies in the river. Interesting stuff!
PAULA JUST LIES TO PUT PEOPLE DOWN. IGNORE HER!
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