This is the runner vs everyone else.

On “go” the runner takes off running in a straight line while the line of their friends quickly throws the ball to each other down the line and back trying to get the ball back to the first person before the runner makes it.

I imagine the spacing of the runners will determine how successful the activity will be as well as the line of kids’ abilities to quickly catch and throw.

I played this with my 4th graders and they really liked it! I asked them for ideas on changing the game. They said to make the runner run further if they were faster, to change up the number of people in the group, and change the type of ball they used. (We used gator balls.)