
Morgan’s Birthday
Adventure Challenge
This adventure challenge is designed to bring your birthday squad closer together and get you to explore the surrounding area while staying safe and healthy. Please follow the current CDC guidelines and your local authorities for the best ways to protect yourselves and those in your community.
Here Are The Rules
Read each challenge carefully and click on any provided links to view helpful pictures, videos, and requirements for each challenge.
Complete as many challenges as you can in the given time frame. Challenges can be completed in any order. Challenges are often designed to bring you together through fun, difficult, or embarrassing experiences, so complete whatever challenges you and your group are comfortable with. Just be sure to create some unforgettable moments and content that your group will cherish forever!
Some challenges may require a few basic supplies to complete them. Figuring out how to obtain these supplies somewhere in the area is part of the strategy so work together and use what you’ve got to get what you need.
Team members need to stay together throughout the adventure, however, if you are all at the same location and searching for an item you can spread out until it is found and then regroup to take the necessary picture/video.
Capture as many team members in your picture or video as possible. When out in the community, teams often ask a kind stranger to take their picture or video so that the entire team can get on film. If it's necessary to have someone on your own team film certain challenges be sure to rotate who that person is so that everyone is actively involved in completing challenges throughout the adventure.
#1: Although Morgan is everyone’s favorite rock star with a February birthday, a close second may be Rihanna who is celebrating her birthday today! To honor both of these amazing women get to the Fort Worth Water Gardens and find a dramatic location to film a RiRi-themed video. For example, have Morgan holding the camera on selfie mode and the rest of the group surrounding her in a circle and she slowly spins to the song “Where Have You Been” at an angle that captures everyone in the group and the beautiful water landscape around you. For some inspiration click HERE. You could also simply create a group choreographed dance to any Rihanna song at that location if you prefer.
#2: Take a video of your team successfully completing the Whipped Cream Catapult Challenge (click the link at the end of the description to see it performed properly). Divide your team into pairs. Have someone squirt a dollop (small lump) of whipped cream onto the back of their hand. Have the other person stand a few feet away from them ready to catch the whipped cream in their mouth. The person with the whipped cream on their hand will swing their arm back, palm down. When that hand gets back in front of them at about waist height, they’ll strike their wrist with their other free hand, causing the whipped cream to go flying. The second person should successfully catch the whipped cream in their mouth, or at least catch some of it in their mouth and the rest on their face. To complete this challenge at least half your team should make a successful catch in the video. To understand the challenge better and to watch a video of a team successfully completing it click HERE.
#3: Located somewhere here in downtown, get your team to the Tabachin Ribbon, which shows the beauty of being twisted together. Once there, form a group with an even number of participants and at least 6 total people (you can recruit kind strangers if needed). Then take a video of your group completing the “Human Ribbon Challenge” while the Tabachin Ribbon is in the background. To watch a video about how to complete the Human Ribbon (or Human Knot) Challenge click HERE. To improve your chances of success, don’t grab the hands of either person right next to you and make sure you have the hands of two different people.
#4: Morgan has been on this Earth for 5,486 days and throughout that time you all have likely used Scotch Tape for just about everything. Well, except this. To honor this incredibly versatile American-made product take a fun team picture after everyone uses Scotch tape to dramatically stretch and distort their faces. For some inspiration click HERE.
#5: Get your team to the YMCA here in downtown. Along the way create a short dance routine incorporating moves from the 2014 Just Dance video game that featured the song “YMCA”. To see the entire routine click HERE. Then once you’re there, take a video of your team performing the routine while the YMCA logo is visible in the background.
#6: Take a video of your team members all at the same time consuming separate spoonfuls of any brand of hot sauce. Make sure to show the bottle or packet of hot sauce in the video so it can be confirmed that it's actually hot sauce you're consuming.
#7: Take a video of at least half your team members successfully completing the “Bottle Flip Challenge” at exactly the same time. Basically, have everyone flip their own separate standard bottle of water (16 ounces or so) onto a hard surface and continue attempting it until at least half your team members land it successfully upright on the same toss. The bottle can be filled with as much water as needed to improve your chances. Be sure to encourage each other and teach one another any tips you might know to help everyone succeed. To watch a video of two people successfully completing this challenge together click HERE.
#8: Take a picture of your team forming a 3-tiered, human pyramid inside of any elevator. You’ll need at least 6 people to properly form 3 tiers, so recruit kind strangers if needed or feel free to use more than 6 people if you have enough willing participants on your team. The elevator can be stopped at a floor with the door open as long as your pyramid is performed inside the actual elevator.
#9: Take a video of at least half the members on your team completing the "Bite The Bag" challenge. Stand on one leg, bend down and grab a brown paper bag with your teeth and lift it up as you stand back up on one foot. Must remain on one foot the entire time and can not use your arms, hold onto anything, or bump into anything else. Everyone on your team can be attempting this challenge with their own bag, but only half of the team needs to do it successfully in order to complete the challenge. To watch a video of someone successfully completing this challenge click HERE.
#10: North Texas is a center for commercial, private and corporate aviation, and is home to one of the largest makers of military fighter aircraft in the world. To honor this city’s role in human flight, take a video of your team completing the "Paper Airplane Challenge". Basically send some team members to the 2nd level of any building or parking garage and have them toss paper airplanes out into the air in front of them (not just dropping it straight downward). The rest of your team should be on the sidewalk or grass below. Any of your team members at ground level need to catch just one plane before it hits the ground. All team members at ground level can be attempting to catch planes, but only one plane needs to be caught. To watch a team complete this mission successfully click HERE.
#11: To honor Morgan’s 15 amazing years on this planet, anywhere around the area take a team picture with any public digital clock (not a cell phone or personal watch) when the digits add up to 15. For example, 12:48pm would be acceptable because 1+2+4+8=15. Similarly, 4:29pm would also be acceptable, or any other time where the sum of the individual digits equals 15.
#12: Find any two strangers around the area wearing cowboy hats or cowboy boots. You could also find one wearing a hat and one wearing boots but both strangers would need to be wearing one of the required items. Once you’ve found them, take a video of your team all singing the first line of the classic 1941 song "Deep in the Heart of Texas", and then have the two strangers respond accordingly (with clapping and singing)! To see an example of this song being sung successfully click HERE. Sing it loud and proud and encourage your Texas loving strangers to do the same.
#13: Get to any clothing or apparel store and find two different items with enough in stock that every team member can be wearing the same two items in their own sizes. Then take a fun team picture with everyone wearing those items. For example it may be a wacky shirt, and a pair of shorts. Or maybe some cozy slippers and a large sun hat. As long as everyone is wearing the same exact two items but in their own sizes.
#14: These past 7 days marked National Salute To Veteran Patients Week, which not only is meant to honor our veterans but also increase awareness about the role local VA facilities have in each community. Anywhere around the area find an active military person or a veteran. Then take a video of them watching your entire team doing 10 push-ups or sit-ups at their feet to honor their strength and courage. After you’ve finished recording, spend a few minutes learning more about their time in the service before you depart, as a small gesture of appreciation.
#15: Find a postcard that features this area in some way or a greeting card designed by a local artist and purchase it. Then click HERE to go to the Postcard Happiness Project website and scroll down to the profile for John Craig, an adult with Downs Syndrome from Oregon that loves to receive mail. On your postcard include a fun or uplifting message and sign it with your names or your group name. The mailing address for John can be found in his profile description. Stamp your card and take a picture with it to show you've completed your Act Of Kindness.