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South Florida Bounce House Safety First

Everyone’s safety is always at the forefront at any event involving our rentals. It is our top priority that every one of your guests leaves with a smile on their face, because they had a great time. While we do our best to conduct a professional business, we also want our clients to know that we need to work together as a team to ensure everyone’s safety. This blog highlights some of the more obvious concerns that people will have and how you can be a happy and satisfied patron. With every rental and attendant will stay present during your event. That attendant will need to enforce that all the guests remember to follow bounce house rules. Roughhousing, fighting and other aggressive activity is tolerated. However, each person that participates is encouraged to use the bounce house as it is intended. Proper clothing is necessary at all times. Shoes are not permitted to be worn on any of the water slides, obstacle courses or bounce houses. This is primarily to prevent injuries from shoes. Wearing the proper gear will keep kids from unnecessarily being injured. When you live in a place like South Florida, you can be subjected to increment weather at a moment’s notice.  In some cases, it may be necessary to reschedule the event.  However, if elements such as lightning, hail or tornadoes are likely to be present the attendants will make the call to shut down the rental to keep everyone from being in the wrath of ‘Mother Nature’. Be sure to check the weather prior to the event to have extra insight. Germs are always present when at the mercy of the public.  Try to keep your children home if they aren’t feeling a 100%.  We know they may not want to miss the party, but it’s better than having them spreading illness among everyone at the party.  Keep in mind that South Florida Bounce goes through an extensive deep-cleaning after every rental. But, this isn’t going to keep your children from breathing.  It’s better to keep them home. Parental supervision is a must! We can’t stress this enough. If a parent can’t be present while their child is playing, then have them assign another adult over the age of 18 to be in charge.  It’s also a good policy to have the parent give consent by signing a permission slip giving the adult in charge the responsibility. The higher your safety sense is, the more your guests will have fun.  Don’t forget these are a few of the obvious tips on how to stay safe.  For more information, contact our reps that have the answers. We look forward to this 2016 summer season and spending it with zero accidents from everyone.

South Florida Birthday Party Hacks

It’s safe to say that every parent wants their child’s birthday party to be special.  If you’re anything like the rest of us, you live by Murphy’s Law. That being said, at one point or another we’ve all had to resort to a little bit of hacking. Although hacking sounds like stealing private information from the Internet, being a hack means additional creativity. In this blog, we highlight some of our favorite birthday party hacks for you to try out yourself. Many of these ideas can be found in places like Pinterest. One creative way of making a hand washing station for your party involves a 5-gallon water cooler with spigot, to short bungee cords, a plastic paper towel holder with adhesive strips, and the utility bucket. Fill the water jug with water, place on the ends of a picnic table, remove adhesive strip on the back of the paper towel holder and stick onto the water cooler. Next, use bungee cords to secure paper towel holder in place. Place empty bucket to catch excess water. Place hand sanitizer or anti-batch soap and voila, you have a portable hand washing station. Looking for a new way to present healthy snacks such as veggie tray or fruit? These two hacks are super easy and will make you look like a hero. Add sliced fruit to skewers and serve in place of cake or less health-conscious foods. Remove and seed the tops of two Bell peppers and use for serving bowls for ranch dressing, in an effort to give your veggie tray a fresh presentation. Looking for the ultimate gift to give to your guests? Why not give them a puppy? Not a real puppy, instead place small stuffed animals that look like puppies in a white basket or a dog bed at the end of the party allow your guests pick the puppy of their choice. This is a great idea rather than giving gift bags or some other novelty idea. When you live in a place like South Florida, bugs a can be annoying, uninvited guests.  Keep the little pests out of drinks with decorative muffin tins. Use a hole punch and place a hole in the center bottom of the muffin cup, tip upside down over an 8-ounce glass, add a straw. Not only does the muffin tins keep the bugs out away, the presentation can match the rest of your party decor making it functional and beautiful. In addition to keeping bugs away, rather than serving ice cream use muffin cups.  Use one scoop per cup and serve to guests. This is the perfect solution for preventing ice cream from melting everywhere. Not only is this functional, it makes you look like a genius. This and other party ideas can be found on our blog weekly. For more information regarding party rentals, contact our offices for the best selection in bounce houses, waterslides and obstacle courses.

Team Building Relay Races for Your Next Event

Have a Team Building Relay Race  for your Next Event – From South Florida Bounce Party and Bounce House Rentals

Try organizing these types of activity for family reunions, charity events and school events.  

Relay races are not only a great way to perform athletic activity, they’re great for team building skills, team spirit and agility testing. Here are a few ideas taken from various resources for you can incorporate in your next event.  Don’t forget to include an obstacle course as part of your racing. 

First break down your teams.  Appoint a captain who is committed to motivate the team when the going gets tough. If you have the budget and want to provide shirts made, then contact a T-shirt making place ahead of time.  Places like VistaPrint.com can be cost efficient when purchasing shirts in bulk. If you are a last minute planner, then check places like Walmart and Target and buy plain colored shirts for you to identify teams.

Next explain the rules of the race.  This is important so everyone can understand what things they can become disqualified for and what they need to do to win.

Dribbling Relay:  Four to five teams having the equal number of players line up behind a starting like. In front of each team, about 10 to 15 meters away a turning point is marked, and on the way one or more objects are placed on the ground. The front most players of each team will be in possession of a basketball. At the signal ‘Go’, the number of one player of each team starts to dribble the ball with one hand around the objects, which should be placed in front of him. He encircles the first object with his left side towards it, and dribbles to the next, around which he goes with his right side towards it. He then dribbles the ball straight back to the starting line. Here he hands the ball over to the next player and stands at the back of his team. All players go forward and come back in turn. The team completing this first is the winner and the other teams are given places according to the order of finishing. Found on WiseBlog.com

Balloon Pop: Inflate enough balloons for each player. Have your team members lined up in rows and place an empty chair opposite each row a good distance away. Give each player an inflated balloon. Team members race one at a time to the chair, sit on their balloon and pop it. The first team to pop all their balloons wins. Found on Icebreakerideas.com

The Three-Legged Race: One person ties his left leg with another person’s right leg. They work together to run or walk (or stumble??) to their goal and back. Strap the legs together at the ankle or calf with a strip of fabric, bandana or stretchy nylon.

Pass the Doughnut:  Team members pass a doughnut from the first person in line to the last person in line using only the straws (or sticks) in his/her mouth. Found on family-reunion-success.com

Beach Balls Crazy: In this race you’ll need inflatable doughnuts, flippers for all sizes, water wings, and pool noodles. Each participant wears a set of wings, places the doughnut around their waist and the flippers on their feet.  A swimming pool noodle is placed at the front of the line (one per line).  The teams line up one at a time they wear the beach gear and race to the other side grabbing the noodle and running it back.  Whichever team makes it to the end with all players having a turn is the winner. This is great fun and can be done at school events as well as birthday parties.  This idea was found on oswegocountytoday.com

These ideas are just a few, but these are some really good ones. If you’ve decided to incorporate an inflatable obstacle course like the one with Orb Balls or Wipe out, you can make this a station and have several other races going at the same time.

These types of activities are loads of fun, they’re enjoyed by both kids and adults because they’re entertaining.  The best part of having a relay race event is having it outdoors where fresh air meets good times.

If you live in South Florida (Palm Beach and Broward County) and you need party rentals or bounce houses for next party, charity events or school event give us a call today. We have so many bounce houses to choose from and for parties, we have dunk tanks and even a trackless train for kids. 

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Article Sources

http://www.wisenepali.com/2014/11/different-types-of-relay-races.html

http://icebreakerideas.com/best-relay-race-games