Our town is putting on a car show and I am looking for ideas for kids to participate in. I have ideas like spark plug screw in contests and the like. Looking for other ideas that can get kids involved as well as families. Thanks for your help.
Try an old fashioned cistern pump- let the child fill the bucket and receive a balloon ( recirculate the water) let the child pump the balloon with a model t tire pump
Fan belt tossing
Assembly and disassembly in under 12 hours?
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If you have an old T that you're not too concerned with the interior on, you could form teams and time them doing what we used to call the Chinese fire drill.
We'd come to a stop light and everyone would jump out and do a seat shuffle. You couldn't end back up in the seat you left.
Let 'em hand crank a car with the ignition OFF just to get the feel. Too many dangers otherwise.
Demonstrate free starts. Always a crowd pleaser.
They could pump up a slack tire.
Doug, here's a neat one we just learned from our daughter. Give the kids each a straw (donated or stolen from MacD's...) and two small bowls. Cheap styrofoam would be perfect. Put a certain amount of M & M's in one bowl and have them "transfer" the M & M's from the one bowl into the other, by straw (and suction) alone. We're going to use it at our church with the little kids. good luck, Joe.
Long muddy strip of grass with a car or truck at each end. Put a cheap prize like a can of drink at one end sitting on the hood or tray of one car/truck and tie a whole lot of old innertubes together to make an elastic rope that is not quite long enough to reach the other car. Tie it to the car axle and put the other end tube over your head & run at the prize. If you are strong you might just be able to reach it, If not, Then you slip over in the mud and get dragged 20 feet over the grass by the elastic properties of the tubes.
I like dwarf throwing, which could easily be modified to be done with children. Model T drives by, and at a certain point the child is thrown from the car into some sandbox or somethin' like that.
But I also like the idea of cranking a Model T into life. Suggestion: turn on the power or it won't start.
Final suggestion: changing a clincher tire with hand tools only. This will encourage team work.
We have done the oil can toss. You take a number of quart plastic bottles and put a different amount of water in each one so they weigh different amounts and then you have to pitch them like horse shoes at a box , whatever distance you chose and the person with the highest number of bottles in the box gets the prize, or just give a prize to anyone who gets a bottle in the box. It sounds easier to do than it is. Have fun . Jim
Fan belt toss? Why not a distributor toss or a water pump toss?
Thanks guys, keep 'em coming.