Equipment:

• 3 Pieces of paper to make your ring

• Soup cans

Objective:

• Get the ring onto the soup cans

How to Play:

• Using your paper, make a ring

• Roll the paper lengthwise, then flatten and tape

• When all 3 are done, tape the ends together

• Spread your soup cans out

• Toss the ring, trying to get it to land over a ring

Variations:

• Use toilet paper instead of soup cans

• Stack up your targets and try to make a tower!

Equipment:

• 1 disc per player (container lid, paper plate, yogurt lid, whatever your parents are okay with you using)

• 1 or more baskets (empty box, laundry basket, etc.)

Objective

• Get your disc into the basket in as few tosses as possible

How to Play:

• Set up your hole

• Tee box (where you start from)

• Basket (where you are trying to get your disc to)

• Player with the longest hair goes first

• Take turns throwing from the tee box

• When everyone has thrown, the player whose disc is farthest from the basket gets to throw from where their disc landed

• As a group, move closer to the basket

• When everyone has scored into the basket, count how many tosses it took you

• Player with the lowest toss number sets up the next hole!

Equipment:

• Chalk

Objective

• Be physically active while practicing math

How to Play:

• Draw a calculator outside using your chalk

• Needs the numbers from 0-9, as well as the symbols =, +, -, x, and ÷

• Using equations from your teacher, jump from button to button on your drawn calculator to find the solution

Variations

• Hop instead of jump

• Have someone test you

• Use 2 sock balls to randomize the numbers/values that you use

Equipment:

• Any number of hats

• 1 or more chairs or stools

Objective

• Toss your hat onto the chair leg

How to Play:

• Place the chair or stool upside down so that the legs are pointing upwards

• Take 5 steps away from the chair or stool

• Toss your hats so that they land on the legs

Variations

• Use your wrong throwing hand

• Stand on one leg when throwing

• Time how long it takes you to get 4 hats on the legs

• 4 hats on the legs in 4 throws

Equipment:

• 1 sock per player

• Even number of shoes to be targets

Objective

• Using your sock ball, knock over the shoe targets

How to Play:

• Roll your sock into a ball

• Place the toes of one shoe into another shoe so that it stands up

• From a few steps back, throw your sock ball at the shoe standing up, trying to knock it over

• 1 point for knocking it over, 2 points for getting the sockball into the shoe and knocking it over

Variations

• Use different throwing styles

• Spread your targets around at different heights

• Stand on one leg when throwing

Equipment:

• Music

Objective

• Dance your heart out when the music is playing

• Freeze when the music stops!

How to Play:

• Have someone play a song you can dance to

• When the music is playing, dance like you have never danced before!

• When the music stops, you freeze, and hold that position until the music starts again

Variations:

• If you are with someone else, see who can hold their frozen position the longest

• When the music stops, you have to stand on one foot

Equipment:

• 26 sticky notes/small pieces of paper

Objective

• Using different movements, spell out various words

How to Play:

• Write a letter on each of the pieces of paper

• Spread out the letters in an area, not in alphabetical order

• For every word you spell, use a different movement

• When you go to the letter pond, you can only grab one letter at a time

• After you have spelled a word, put all the letters back in the pond

Locomotor Movements to Try:

• Jump

• Hop

• Skip

• Shuffle (both feet stay on the floor)

• Crab Walk

• Bear Walk

Variations:

• Move like animals and spell out their name

• Use words from your class website!

Equipment:

• 1 sock or 1 piece of paper per player

Objective

• Bounce your sock ball/paper ball in the air as many times as you can

How to Play:

• Roll your sock into a ball or crumble your paper into a ball

• Using a flat hand, hit your ball into the air as many times in a row as you can

• You can have 3 tries to see what your record is

Variations:

• Use only 1 hand at a time

• Go back and forth between your hands

• Give yourself a certain spot you have to stand in

• Try everything hitting back and forth with a partner

Equipment:

• 1 sock

• 1 bin/bucket

Objective

• Throw your sock into the bin/bucket 3 times

How to Play:

• Roll your sock into a ball

• Begin 4-5 steps away from your bin

• Before each attempted throw, you have to do 10 squats

• Do 10 squats, then try to throw your sockball into the bin

• If you make it, get your ball, and take a step back from where you threw the first time

• If you miss, get your ball, and try again from the same spot as your throw

Variations:

• If you have enough space, play against someone

• Change the exercise you are doing

• Start closer to/farther from the bin/bucket

Equipment:

• 1 sock per player

Objective

• While standing on one leg, throw and catch your sock

How to Play:

• Roll your sock into a ball

• Choose a leg to stand on, and throw and catch your sock as many times as you can on one leg

• Switch legs to practice on the other leg

• Change how you throw and catch (one hand or two hands)

• Ask someone to play with you, and both of you throw and catch while trying to balance!

Equipment:

• Inflated balloon

Description:

• The goal of this game is to keep the balloon in the air using any body part

Variations:

• Use only specific body parts (i.e. only head, only shoulders, etc.)

• Add in more balloons