If the player forgets to ask permission after they get directions— and takes steps toward the caller— they are sent back to the starting line. The first player to reach the caller is the winner and new caller. Idea: Change the name to the season: Teacher May I? Santa, Snowman, Cupid, Leprechaun, Bunny, etc. Purchase feathers at a local craft store. Give each child a feather. This game can also be played in teams.
Half of the group are called foxes and the other half are named rabbits. Rabbits are standing behind a line at one end of the play area. Equipment: Sponge balls of various sizes A ball is thrown in to start the game. The teams each on their own side of line throw two or three balls, back and forth, trying to hit the opposite team.
A basic tag game. If children are tagged, they must stand with their legs apart stuck in the mud until someone crawls through and releases them. You have two or more taggers, and two youth with rubber chickens. The taggers run and tag children to freeze them. After a few minutes switch the taggers and the chickens.
Make sure there are no trip hazards. They must find their friends, link arms, and then find the rest of their friends. They will have a good time shuffling around and bumping into each other! Be sure an adult is present at all times. Players take turns leaning backward and shuffling under the rope. Lower the rope after each round. Be sure to play Limbo music!
Have all players join hands in a circle. The cat chases the mouse around and through the circle. Players help the mouse but not the cat. When Mouse is caught a new Cat and Mouse are chosen. This one is a surefire winner!
Divide the remaining players into teams of three members each. Each team will choose one of the three members to be a target. The target on each team will wear an identifying marker such as a piece of masking tape. Players continue to hold each others wrists during the entire game. Instead of using actual Hockey sticks, use foam noodles that are for swimming. Instead of a puck, use a waffle ball. Tape or mark off the boundaries. Have a penalty box for the rule-breakers. You can make a time limit, or a goal limit.
If you have many kids be sure to switch out players…. TIP: Do you remember your favorite game as a child? Teach that game to your kids!!! Celebrate and have fun keeping the old games alive! It was designed to get older women up and exercising. Check out the Indoor or Outdoor Walking Club! A great idea! Need some team names for your gym games? Check out our team names for kids. Save Save. Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, meaning I get a commission if you decide to purchase through my links, at no cost to you.
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Read the full disclosure here. Fun Gym Games Looking for some fun gym games for kids? OCTOPUS Play as with dodge ball or gaga ball , but instead of sitting out to the side— players sit down where they are tagged by the ball. The ships blindly navigate their way eyes closed their way about, attempting to reach the safety of the lighthouse.
Divide group into two equal-sized teams and have them sit on the floor at opposite ends of the room. Place a goal at each end and the ball in the center of the room. When given the signal for play to start, the children must crab walk to the ball and attempt to kick the ball toward their goal and score.
Players must stay in the crab-walk position the entire game. Failure results in the opposing team getting a free kick.
After a goal is scored, the ball is placed in the center of the play area and the game resumes. The first team to reach an agreed-upon number of points wins. Each team has a goal on either side of the center line. If tagged, the members of the true team become members of the false team. If a child is tagged on the arm, only the arm is frozen.
If tagged on the leg, only the leg is frozen, so the child must hop on one leg. The object is to completely freeze as many as possible. If you want, you can have others unfreeze body parts as well. This game is fast-paced and great for a larger group.
One child is Mr. The two go hand-in-hand. I love to engage my students in how-to writing with the steps for building snowmen. Building a snowman is something that most students know how to do. Have students practice with their hands, and then turn it into a how-to assignment. This activity gets students sequencing steps in order, writing, and drawing about them! There are several winter words to practice this time of year! This activity gives students the opportunity to write about wintertime, winter sports, arctic animals, and hot cocoa!
Students simply grab a ring of words and some writing paper. It is simple enough to take outside for a quick gym game and for kids to burn off some energy. I love this active game because it integrates math and gym.
The activity is very easy to prepare, yet it was a lot of fun and it allowed me to take our gym class outside. This activity can be adapted to varying grade levels and various math strands. The materials you will need are a class set of large wood slices and a large sensory ball. The wood slices were simply to help with classroom management and indicate to children where they need to stand. I laid the slices out in a circle on the grass and each child stood on a wood slice. Continue counting as high as the children are able to.
We worked together when the numbers got big and children helped each other with the counting. This activity could easily be changed for older children learning their math facts, such as multiplication.
Children need to be listening and following along in case the ball is thrown to them. They would only have a few seconds to think of their answer before they have to throw the ball to the next player. One child could say a multiplication fact for another child to solve and then bounce the ball to them.
If you are working with young children they could sit and roll the ball instead of bouncing it. It is such a simple idea, but I personally love using it because it gets kids active and engaged in math. I love this gym game! I have used it with children in intermediate games all the way down to kindergarten.
This is a really easy team building game that I remember doing as a kid. It is simple, but requires children to really think and strategize together.
This activity requires no prep and all you need are two large mats. Divide the group of kids into 2 groups and give each group 2 mats. I had at least 10 children in each group. Starting at the same line, each team needs to figure out a way to get across the gym using only the mats.
Oh, and pretend that the floor is lava so you cannot touch it at all! Groups have to come up with a plan where they are always only touching the mat, but somehow get to other side of the gym. Those were the only instructions that they were given. Usually children start by trying to push one mat across, which, slowly but surely may work.
Ultimately, children will need to all huddle together on one mat, but then lift the other mat around in front of the one they are standing on and set it down — and then jump over and repeat. This is a great activity to create team building and problem solving. There have been many requests to do this again… and again… and again. Everyone was excited to get their hands on these huge balloons!
When were were working on volleyball skills in gym these huge balloons were a great way to introduce the unit. I find with young kids, using any new or interesting equipment for gym games encourages them to move their body and develop their gross motor skills. You will need 4 large balloons blown up and ready to use I used a pump.
I drew some silly faces on them with permanent marker, just for fun. We started off in 4 small groups volleying the balloons around to each other.
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