Childhood Games

             

Motion is Fun

1.           Running in pairs with a leg tied to colleague’s leg

The kids makes 2 teams  and form a relay. The pairs start to run to the ending point, then return to starting point and pass the flag to another team pair. The fastest team wins.The pair can run, jump, crawl whatever they choose to do. And of course you have to fun especially the pairs are funny: one tall and one short, one tubby and one thin, one speedy and one very lazy and so on.

2.     Running in one leg.

Kids can form teams (2,3,4 ...) or play individualy. If there are teams the fastest one   wins,   if they play alone and they are too many the teacher have to time the kids to see the fastest.  The other leg can tied up or can be kept with the hand.

  

3.     Running around bottles

On the field in the teacher  sits in straight line from place to place 3-4    bottles.        Two       teams are formed  that will run in running relay.   First    student will have in hand a   bottle and will bypass the bottles in slalom, then at the end he will  let the bottle  and    return. The following student will go on the same path, will take the bottle and give it   to the next and so on. The fastest team wins.

           

4.     Running into a sack (bag)

Kids splitted in 2,3 teams or play alone. They have to put theirs legs into a sack with handles and at the right signal jump to the end and go back. Teams will be splitted in 2 halves, at the both ends of the field. The student runs in sack, arrives to the end, pass the sack to the team mate and waits. The team mate runs in sack to the other end pass the sack to another team mate and so on.

If it is a relay the fastest team wins, if it individual teacher must use a stopwatch to establish who is the fastest kid.

5.     Punching the balloons

Kids are in 2 teams, one in front of eachother. Over them teacher release  balloons, proportional with the number of children, and every team will try to send the ballons, by punching, to the other team. When a team send all balloons into the other team’s field it scores a point. Firs team which aquires the fixed number of points (3, 4 etc) wins.

6.     The myriapod

Kids are splitted in two teams. Every team is link together by a rope, and they are staying one in front of another. The 2 teams start to run to the end , go back, start over untill teacher said stop. The fastest wins. Of course it will be a lot of fun because they have different speeds and dynamics.

7.     Running in a circle

Two teams. Every team has a circle, and inside it 2 or 3 kids (crowded is better). At teacher’s signal every teams runs to the end and then goes back, pass the circle to the mates and so on. The fastest team wins.