Frisbee golf activity

Frisbee Golf

Requirements

  • One frisbee per player.
  • Large outdoor space without fences, ponds, lakes, or water bodies (a few trees are fine).
  • Objects that you can set up as targets for each golf “hole” (e.g., sports bags, carboard boxes, bicycle flags).

Instructions

  1. 1Create your own frisbee golf course by setting up a series of golf “tees” (a place where you throw the frisbee from, marked with a simple object placed on the ground) and targets representing the golf “holes.” For each tee box, you need one target 10-30 metres away.
  2. Each player starts by throwing their frisbee from the first tee at the target hole for that tee. The objective is to get as close to the target as possible.
  3. If a player hits the target in one throw, that is a hole-in-one. The player records their score for that hole as “1.”
  4. If a player does not hit the target, they pick up their frisbee where it landed and throw again.
  5. Players continue picking up their frisbee from each place where it lands and throwing again until they hit the target.
  6. After hitting the target, each player counts how many throws they made. This is their score for that hole.
  7. After the players have played all the holes in the frisbee golf course, the player with the lowest combined score is the winner.

Variations

  • Create fun challenges when you set up the golf course by putting targets behind distant trees or hills where they might only be partially visible from the tee, or not visible at all.
  • Try playing frisbee golf in the winter in snow—another fun challenge, and a great excuse to go outside in winter!

Benefits

This activity further develops frisbee throwing, and it includes some imagination and problem-solving challenges in setting up the golf course.

Information

  • Skill: Throw
  • 30 minutes
  • Suggested age: 6 - 12 years