Game of the Day: #50) Bumper Hockey*

Supplies
*rubber ball
*hockey sticks or brooms for each player (can tell everyone to bring an old one if they have it, from home)
*objects to stand at least a foot high, that won't slide when hit by ball, to serve as barriers (ie: trash cans, tires, weighted cones)

Goal
For the team to score the most goals.

Preparation
Set up playing area, with barriers at various positions throughout, and along the edges of the playing area. Have an area on either side, marked off as the goal.

How to Play
This is similar to regular field hockey, but with barriers set up around the field, for the ball to bounce off and add unpredictability.
Split group into two teams, and give each player a hockey stick or broom. Have the teams stand on opposite sides of the field. They're goal is to get the ball into the goal on the other side. Assign one person from each team, to be the goalie, guarding the goal behind them, from the opposing team. Set the ball in the middle of the playing area. At your command, they may begin, hitting the ball with their brooms/hockey sticks, toward their own goal, or to their own team mates, to get it into their goal. The team that scores the most goals, wins.

*(my invention)