Family Games

Warm ups

Movements: move around an area in different ways. Ask your children to come up with different ideas/types of movement.

Animals: move around an area as different types of animals. Ask your children for different animals to try.

Statues: move around an area have to make a statue of whatever sport is shouted out by an adult.

High five: move around an area high fiving each other. Change it to low fives. Then try high and low straight after each other.

Traditional Games Ball Games What time is it Mr Wolf: a person is Mr Wolf who Clap Catch: throw a ball in the air clap once and stands at one end of the garden. Children/child start catch, continue but increase number of claps each at the opposite end and shout ‘what time is it mister time. See how many you can do before you drop wolf’. The reply is a number e.g. 3, they have to take the ball. that many steps forward towards Mr Wolf. When they get closer, Mr Wolf can say dinnertime and Wiggle in the middle: stand in the garden, thrower chases them back to their starting position. Anyone pass the ball to the children. Aim is for the thrower caught then becomes MR Wolf. to make someone drop the ball when they throw it to them. If the ball is dropped that person has to

Stuck in the Mud: someone is on, who has to catch run into the marked area and do a little wiggle. the others. If they are caught (touched by the person

who is on) thy have to stand with their arms out to await to released, a player going under their arms required 3 people to play. Skipping

Hopscotch: play around with different patterns of

Hula‐Hoops hops and scotch. No ropes are needed.

Drop Hoop Catch: reaction game. You have to French skipping: elasticated band, put around either catch the hula‐hoop when it is dropped, before it 2 peoples legs or 2 chairs etc. the bands are then reaches the floor. used for someone to jump in and out of the bands. Rhythms and songs can be sung. Pass the hoop: stand in a circle holding hands, a hula‐hoop is looped over a players arm. The team Jump rope: long skipping rope, see if you can get two has to get the hoop all the way around the circle people jumping at once, get children to jump in and

without breaking the chain. out of the rope.

Races: see who can skip the fastest from one end of Ring Bounce: have 3 hula‐hoops in a line, have to the garden to the other. throw a ball so it bounces in each hula hoop with

the one throw.

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Cone Games

Dishes & Domes: in an area have 2 sets of cones, one scattered around the right way up the other set scattered around upside down. Have 2 sets of teams, one to turn the cones the wrong way around the other to turn them the right way around. After a set amount of time, stop and count each teams cones, the on with the most wins. Other

Go Home: each child has a cone of their chose and can put Beanbag balance: balance beanbags on it wherever they want in the designated area. Children different parts of the body (head, elbow, stand by their cone. For example if you say if you are knee etc.) try moving around and see who wearing blue move around, let them, move around the can balance the longest. cones and the others still at their own cone. Shout Go Hide an object: hide some objects in the Home, they have to find their cone and get back to it. garden, and get the children to find them. (Cones or markers required) Relays: Parents time the children: run to a Rats & Rabbits: in pairs stand in two lines (standing cone and back again, hop, jump there and shoulder to shoulder). One line is Rabbits and the other is back, use ball pass it around the waist Rats. If you shout Rats, they have to run away from their whilst running. Rabbit partner and get to their cone before they are caught.

Tennis Ball Skills

Tennis: in pairs use their hands as a tennis racket and play the ball back and forth.

Tennis: in pairs face each other and hold each other’s left hand, this is to be used as a net. With your free hand use as a tennis racket. Move around so each player can get the ball back over the ‘net’.

Reaction: In pairs, one drops a tennis ball or an object and the other has to catch it before it lands on the floor.

Reaction: in pairs facing a wall, one stands behind the other and throws the ball towards the wall. The other pair has to catch the ball as it bounces off the wall. Keep going to see how many they catch out of 10 and manage to keep hold of the balls. It will get harder the more balls they catch. (10 tennis balls required)

You may need to use your imagination and adapt the games/ equipment: rolled up socks as a ball.

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Family Games 2

Ten Pin Bowling

Use plastic cups as the pins and a small ball or Memory Game a rolled up pair of socks for the bowling ball. Gather together 20 or so toys/objects from around Extra: put numbers onto the cups to add the the house. Put them into a designated place. numbers together that have been knocked Memorise all items gathered. Turn around whilst down. someone else takes an object (or more) away. Turn back around and you have to recall the object/s that

have been removed. Hide and Seek

To make it active the person who has to guess what Hide a toy or object in the house or garden. is missing has to do an exercise first: star jumps. The other person then has to go and find that object. Can time each other to see how long it takes Problem Solving to find the object. Alternatively, stick letters onto the objects, Get a length of string, rope or skipping rope. once all collected have to figure out the word Blind fold yourselves, working together create that they you have put together. Another different shapes using the length of rope. idea is see who can make the most words out of the letters in 30 seconds. Ball Skills

Mini Circuits Balloons: who can keep the balloon off the floor for the longest? Who can do the most keep ups Depending on child’s age, do times tables, using the balloon? additions or subtraction: shout out a maths Piggy in the middle: can do this either standing question and the answer you have to do that outside or sitting down inside. many number of the certain exercise. Passing: count how many times you can pass the Exercises can include star jumps, high knees, leg ball to each other without dropping it, either climbers, press-ups, squats. Get creative with seated or standing. movements. Try using different size balls or object to throw and catch.

Boccia/Bowls

Have six balls/socks each (make sure you can tell the difference between teams). Whoever goes first throws the spare ball/jack, which will become the target.

The aim is to get your balls closest to the jack to win. You can knock each other’s balls out of the way. You can play this either in a seated or standing position.

You may need to use your imagination and adapt the games/ equipment: rolled up socks as a ball.

For more information on how to keep active at home, go to: https://activehalton.co.uk/staying-active-at-home-during-covid-19/