Potato Polo

For this game you'll need a potato and some pantyhose for each player. Tie a knot in the end of the pantyhose and put in a potato for your "mallet". Then just get an average-sized ball and something to mark your goals with. You play just like hockey. You might want a smoother playing surface like a gym floor instead of a lawn, but either way this is a fun game that is more challenging than you think! The unpredictability of the "mallet" makes it even more fun and challenging even for skilled athletes.

Ice Cream Statues

Take your hand at it Michelangelo!

Get the box kind of ice cream... Best to only take it out of the freezer right before you start... you don't want it all melty... yet!

Take the brick and you and some friends start carving down to make the best art!

Have a contest!

Then when you're done, you get to eat it... work in teams if you don't think you can eat a whole carton of ice cream yourself... but you know you can!

Make your own cold stone

Who wants to pay those high prices? Get some friends together and try this:

Buy some basic ice cream flavors (vanilla, chocolate) you know, the cheap stuff!

Get assorted candy bars, mash them up together and try making all sorts of different combinations! It's a great way to find out what you like and it's cheap to split on a double date or just the two of you!

St. Anthony Sand Dunes

Whether you love to four wheel and dirt bike, or you just want to relax in the sand and have some fun, the Sand Dunes are where you want to be. The Dunes are a great place to just go out and play, and then have a bonfire in the evening. In the winter it's a perfect place to go sledding too. The Dunes are also close to Egin Lake and the Ice Caves and the Civil Defense Caves.

Here's a website for directions and more information:
http://www.duneguide.com/sand_dune_guide_st_anthony.htm

Green Canyon Hot Springs

One of the best things about Rexburg is that it's really close to a lot of hot springs. Green Canyon Hot Springs is a super fun swimming pool/hot tub/cold pool and it's not expensive. It's also not far from Rexburg. So have fun in the winter or summer and go swimming!


Here's a website for more information: http://www.greencanyonhotspring.com/

Ugly Sweater Contest

As lame as this might sound, it's actually really fun. Just get a bunch of people together and have them all try to find and wear the ugliest sweater. In Rexburg, the D.I. is a perfect place to find sweaters. Serve treats, play games, and vote on who has the ugliest sweater! The same idea works for "Superhero Night" "80's Contest" or any other kind of contest that involves dressing up....you get the idea.

Spaghetti Fest

Take advantage of the fact that spaghetti has a tendency to be a little messy. Get individual members of a group (couples if it's a date, individuals if it's just a group of friends) to bring noodles, sauce, meatballs, and whatever else you put on your spaghetti and start cooking! Meanwhile, saran wrap your table or counter. Once the spaghetti is finished, serve it directly on counter/table top. Tie your hands with whoever is sitting next to you. Then you can either choose to eat with random utensils (a spatula, ice cream scoop, etc.), or you can just dig in with your face! Bon appetite!!

BYU-Idaho's Outdoor Resource Center!

Did you know the BYU-Idaho's Outdoor Resource Center rents out equipment for you to have fun? Well if not, now you do!

They have tandem bikes, mountain bikes, rafts, camping equipment, canoes, touring & whitewater kayaks, tents, sleeping bags, backpacks, cross country skis, snowshoes, snow toys, Telemark skis, tug-o-war rope, twister for 300 and other equipment for sale and rent.

Twister for 300! You're bound to have fun!

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Marco Polo Group Date

You be marco, I'll be polo at the BYU-Idaho pool followed up with snoasis to keep things cool.

Date Night - TV dinner

Date night to the TV Museum in Rigby along with TV dinners back at home.

Click here for details and directions.

Bigger Or Better

This is a classic group activity similar to a scavenger hunt. The idea is pretty simple. Just pick a neighborhood, split into small groups and go house to house trying to find something bigger or better than the last item you found.

Example:
Each group starts with any random object like a paper clip, magazine, pencil, etc. Take it to the first house and ask to trade it with something bigger or better. If you start with a magazine, they might trade it for a book which you take to the next house and ask for something bigger or better than the book and so on. The group that ends with the biggest or best object wins.

It's a fun, easy game that yields very interest results. If you have any memories from playing this, just add a comment to this post.