Cup Stacking Relay Races (K-8)

Warm Up (5min): 2nd Chance Tag (Loco motor Options for moving in a small space: Speed walking, hopping, skipping, galloping, but NO running in the small space). 2-3 people are it. Taggers wear a red piney. Once they tag somebody, the person tagged will get a second chance by playing rock, paper, scissors with the original tagger. Whoever loses the rock, paper, scissors game is then it. Piney may have to be exchanged.

Activity: Cup Stacking Relays Students are placed in team of two (or more) depending upon the amount of space you have and on the amount of cups you have. Teams should be sitting one behind the other with the cups in the garage (cups quietly sitting on the floor in front of the group).

K-3 (3 cups per team) 1) 3 Up Stack “Tower” Relay: (Stack the cups one on top of the other to build them tall). (First person will run to the designated area and place the first cup, return, high 5 partner, then second person brings the second cup and towers in on top of the first cup, return, high 5 partner etc… repeat until tower is standing)

2) 3 Down Stack “Tower” Relay: Repeat opposite of #1.

3) 3 Up Stack Relay: (One cup at a time)

4) 3 Down Stack Relay: (One cup at a time)

6) 6 Down Stack Relay: Only two steps… first person brings 3 cups and the second person brings the last 3 cups.

Grades 4-8

1) 6 Up Stack “Tower” Relay: (Stack the cups one on top of the other to build them tall). (First person will run to the designated area and place the first cup, return, high 5 partner, then second person brings the second cup and towers in on top of the first cup, return, high 5 partner etc… repeat until tower is standing tall)

2) 6 Down Stack “Tower” Relay: Repeat opposite of #1.

4) 6 Down Stack Relay: (One cup at a time) 5) 6 Up Stack Relay: (All 6 cups at once, then the second person down stacks all 6 cups at once)

6) Repeat 6 Up Stack and let the second partners reverse rolls of up stacking and down stacking

7) 6 Up Stack Partner Relay: Partners are linked at elbow and carrying 3 cups each with non-linked arms.

8) 6 Down Stack Partner Relay: Partners do Opposite of number 7

9) 15 Up Stack:

Cool Down: Helicopter Helicopter Game: Swing the rope and beanbag….let the students jump over the rope… a) Round 1: practice a few times b) Round 2: if you get hit by the rope do 10 jumping jacks c) Round 3: line up if hit