Can camps do a color run as an activity?

 

There is a popular camp activity called color run, where campers run across a path as fellow campers shower them with colored chalk powder. It is a fun group activity that I’ve seen many camps do. I recently heard that the origins stem from a Hindu festival of colors when they would do a somewhat similar activity. (This is the origin given by Wikipedia. There were also links that led to Indian missionary websites with information on it). Is there any halachik or hashkafic problem with doing such an activity if it is meant as a completely “neutral” fun game?

 

I don’t see a problem with it.

The activity was recently “invented” in the US, inspired by an activity which is done during a Hindu festival that has religious meaning. Even if that religious meaning is indeed Avoda Zara, not all related activities are, and certainly not an activity that is “based” on such an activity.

 

 

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