Two Gents and a Little Lady

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Gender Olympics

I'm publishing this post to recruit some help from all of the creative minds out there. We have a tri-ward YW/YM activity this Wednesday, that our ward is in charge of. We have decided to do a gender olympics activity. The idea is that the girls will compete amongst themselves completing small tasks that are typically (perhaps not strictly) done by boys. And vise versa. Some ideas we had for girls would be to tie a necktie (perhaps first learn how) and shave their face (with a bladeless razor). Some ideas we had for boys were to have a footrace wearing high heels (we would purchase some very large shoes from DI), clasp a bracelet on their right wrist with their left hand, and braid (since guys usually have short hair, we thought we would provide some rope for them to use for this.)
The help I need from everybody out there is some more ideas for events. We need ideas for both girls and guys, but especially for girls. These need to be relatively short and inexpensive tasks, that can be done in the church gym. That mean changing the oil or a tire is out. Also, we need to be careful that no task is inappropriate, such as cross-dressing. This means that we will probably not be asking the boys to put on pantyhose (though that would be hilarious) or apply mascara. The high-heel race is actually a stretch. So if anybody has some entertaining and creative ideas, we'd love to hear them. We have other ideas we could use, but they would probably not be very entertaining. Thank you!

2 comments:

Kerilee Law said...

You probably don't have time to have the boys grind wheat and make homemade bread from it.

Annie Oldham said...

You could have a bunch of cleaning supplies and have the guys match each cleaning supply to the item it's supposed to clean and see who does it the fastest.

You could do something similar for the girls--have a bunch of tools and see who can match the tool with its function the fastest.