Outdoor Library Obstacle Course!

If you are looking for something you can leave at your school for the summer, or an easy way to keep people occupied and moving while they are outside your library – this library has a great idea!

Library Challenges Community
With Obstacle Course

“While libraries are still closed in Illinois, one area institution has given locals a chance to test themselves in a different kind of way. After seeing a video of an obstacle course set up outside a library in Nebraska, the Germantown Hills Branch Library was motivated to create their own challenge.

“Libraries are nothing if not a place to share information, so I took their inspiration,” Marketing and Events for Illinois Prairie District Public Library Donna Forbis said. “We came and we painted Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning last week and people have been coming out ever since.”

The course starts with a running segment before going into four straight jumps. followed closely by an area where you must spin four times. Once you’re nice and dizzy, you make five jumps over dots.”

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