The document outlines 8 stations for an Amazing Race event at a historic site. Each station includes a brief description of the activity or challenge teams must complete, as well as any supplies needed. Challenges include making homemade ice cream, completing gardening tasks, playing children's games, and a color run finale. Teams work together to complete tasks at each station to earn clues leading to the next location.

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2014 Amazing Race Station Outline
Station # Location Station Name
1 Welcome Center Introductory Video
2 Barn Games That Children Play
3 Front Porch-Maison Olivier
House
Mardi Gras MyPlate
Necklace
4 Kitchen-Near the Maison
Olivier House
Ice Cream
5 Blacksmith Shop (next door
to the Maison Olivier
House)
Blue Dog Goes Healthy
6 1st
Acadian Cabin Front
Yard
Day in the Life of the
Acadian Child
7 Garden (near the 1st
Acadian Cabin)
Gardening
8 Concrete Loop in front of
the Acadian Cabin
Color Run

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Station
#
Location Station
Name
Station Description Supplies Needed
1
Welcome
Center
Introductory
Video
All teams will start the race by watching the video shown in the
welcome center.
Each team will have a handout with a series of 8 questions to
answer while watching the video. The handout will be stored in the
team’s folder and turned in at the conclusion of the race. The
questions will be worth a total of 2 points each for a total of 16
points for this station.
After viewing the film, teams will receive their first clue.
Handout
Pencils
2
Barn Games that
Children
Play
Teams will have two challenges to complete at this station:
1-Ball Game
2-Games of Graces
Teams can complete the challenges in any order they want, and can
complete more than one at a time.
Ball & Cup Game:
Teams will have a choice in which tools they want to use to
complete this challenge.
There are two choices:
1-Wooden Ball and Cup Game-make one to move on
2-Make your own ball and cup game-get the ball in the cup five
times to move on.
Teams can pick, they can also switch their choices if they want to.
Games of Graces:
Teams must play “Games of Graces” and get three catches to
complete this challenge. The entire team needs three catches, not
each individual player
Once the two challenges have been completed correctly, the team
can receive their next clue.
Ball And Cup Game
Supplies (provided by
State Historic Staff)
Game of Graces
(enough for three
teams at a time)
1 volunteer (State
Historic Site Staff
Member)
1 Table

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3
Front
Porch-
Maison
Olivier
House
Mardi Gras
MyPlate
Necklace
Each team will construct a Mardi Gras Bead necklace by reading a
daily menu and stringing a certain color bead for each food group
from menu.
Vegetables on Menu-Green Bead
Fruits on Menu-Red Bead
Grains on Menu-Orange Bead
Protein on Menu-Purple Bead
Dairy on Menu-Blue Bead
Teams must turn in the necklace in a plastic zippered bag inside of
their team folder.
Once the challenge is completed the team can receive their next
clue.
Beads (green, red,
orange, purple, and
blue)
Strings/Yarn
Zippered Bag in each
team’s folder
Menu (several to put
on table)
Examples of food
groups poster
2 tables
1 volunteer
4
Maison
Olivier
House-
Kitchen
Ice Cream This station has two challenges to complete, homemade ice cream
challenge and dairy worksheet challenge.
Ice Cream Challenge:
Teams will create a homemade ice cream treat. Teams will have to
follow a recipe and measure ingredients to make ice cream.
Once the ice cream is made teams can enjoy their treat.
Dairy Worksheet Challenge:
Teams will use the information provided at this station to correctly
answer 5 questions about the dairy food group. Questions will be
worth 2 points each for a total of 10 points.
Once teams have completed both challenges, they must ring the
dinner bell to receive their next clue.
Ice Cream Recipe card
Ingredients: Sugar,
Vanilla, 2% Milk
Half & Half, Ice, &Rock
Salt
Plastic Quart storage
bag
Zippered gallon
freezer bag
Dairy Information
Dairy Handout to put
in team folder
Plastic Spoons
Scissors
Paper Towels
Cups
2 tables
2 volunteers
2 ice chests

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5
Blacksmith
Shop (next
door to
the
Maison
Olivier
House
Kitchen)
Blue Dog
Goes
Healthy
Teams will create a blue dog healthy living scene in an original blue
dog painting to honor the late George Rodrigue.
Each team will be given a blank paper, glue, a blue dog, paint, and
paint brush.
The team must work together to create a healthy living scene. The
team must use the blue dog somewhere in their painting, by gluing
him in the artwork.
Teams must take a team picture with their artwork before receiving
their next clue. The station volunteer will take the picture.
Once the team completes the challenge and takes a picture, they
receive their next clue.
Paint
(Blue, Red, Orange,
Purple, Green, Black)
Paper Plates to use as
paint pallets
Brushes
Blank Paper for each
team
Glue
Blue Dog picture for
each team
Paper Towels
Camera
2 tables
1 volunteer
6
Front Yard
of the 1st
Acadian
Cabin
Day in the
Life of the
Acadian
Child
There are two challenges at the station that depicts chores Acadian
children used to have to perform on the homestead.
Cotton Picking:
Teams will have to seed the cotton bolls. Each team must fill a
small plastic container with seeds to finish the challenge.
Lavar:
Teams must wash 3 pieces of clothing and hang it to dry.
After completing both challenges, team can receive their next clue.
Cotton Bolls with
Seeds in them
Plastic Container to
put seeds in
Dirty clothing
Washboard
Water
Clothesline
7
Garden
(near the
Acadian
Cabin)
Great
Garden
Detective
There are 2 challenges at this station, Planting a Vegetable and
Great Garden Detective Matching.
Planting a Vegetable:
Each team member will have to fill 3 planters with seeds. They
must follow directions that are given at the station from the
volunteer. After planting, the team member must write the name
Planters
Seed
Hand Shovels
Dirt
Water
5 vegetables
Vegetable Matching

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of the vegetable on a marker and stick it into the plant.
Great Garden Detective Matching Game:
Each team will have to solve the mystery of which vegetable
subgroup a vegetable belongs to. There will be 5 vegetables on the
table. Using the matching worksheet in their team folder, the team
will match the vegetable on the table to its correct vegetable
subgroup. There will be vegetable subgroup explanations on the
table that will help teams figure out the correct answers.
handout in each
teams folder
Vegetable subgroup
explanation handout
for table
1 table
2 volunteers (1-State
Historic Staff)
8
Concrete
Loop in
the front
of the
Acadian
Cabin
Color Run
Teams must complete a “victory lap” color run before jumping on
the finish rug.
Along the lap, volunteers will be stationed to “color” the team
members.
Halfway through the lap, there will be a wheel that all teams must
spin. The wheel may have extra points, congratulations, or road
blocks. If extra points are earned a volunteer will give the team a
token to turn in with their team folder.
If the team gets a roadblock, the team must complete the
roadblock, come back to the wheel spot and complete their color
run lap.
Wheel
Roadblocks
1 point tokens
2 point tokens
Fruits/Veggies to taste
Color Run Powder
Paint
Large Oak
Tree in the
front of
the
Visitor’s
Center
Finish Line To be considered finished:
-All team members must complete a full color run lap
-All team members must be standing on the finish rug.
-Team folder must be turned in to the agent/volunteer at the end
and time will stop.
Table
Stopwatch/Timer
Pencils
Rug