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April 13, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Duck Racing

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We decided we were going to do our own duck race! We bought a big box of 50 rubber ducks in ‘Home Bargains’ and set about numbering them up and decorating them. We made a ‘duck race’ sign and a finish line using an old sheet. We then headed out to the stream not forgetting our nets to catch our racing ducks at the end…

Here’s how we got on..

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Once we had finished our prep we were off!!

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We took a hat full of chocolate gold coins for the winners..

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We set up our finish line on a footbridge..

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Then we headed to the other end of the stream to start our race..

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AND THEY WERE OFF!!!

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We w

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We waited for them to cross the finish line before setting about fishing them out…

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And we counted them up yo make sure we hadn’t lost any..

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Some of us got some serious booties retrieving them 🙂

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For the £5 it cost for our ducks we had a fab afternoon, we finished we a picnic on the river bank.

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  1. eclecticlamb says

    April 13, 2014 at 6:36 pm

    Wow! It looks like so much fun!

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    • familydaystriedandtested says

      April 13, 2014 at 6:41 pm

      Great fun for minimum spend 🙂 My kind of fun!

      Reply

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