Favorite Games Listing of Games 1 James Bond Game 10 King Ball As part of our 8 years of offering an 2 Fruit Loops Tag 11 T-Rex Tag 3 Catch Up Tag 12 Hospital Tag After School Program at Dr. John’s 4 Illinois Cone Ball 13 Borrow It Sports Center, we had plenty of 5 Great Wall of China 14 Wheel and Deal 6 Mike, Ike and Spike 15 All Change - All Move opportunity to test games on school 7 Target Soccer 16 Bounce Brigade aged children. These were voted 8 Swamp Ball 17 Star Wars by the children as their all time 9 Mustag Tag 18 Home Base favorites. - Dr. John James Bond Game (From PE Universe – www.peuniverse.com. Video of game can be viewed.) Space Needed: Gym “Bond…James Bond” is an exciting capture the flag/ball tag combination. Split the gym into two halves and set up eight Equipment Needed: folding gymnastic mats in a folded, vertical position on each side ▪8 Gym Mats of the gym. Behind each mat place a cone with a deck ring on ▪8 Cones it. To the side of the gym place two poly spots (jail) for each team. Divide the class in half with one or both teams wearing ▪8 Deck Rings different colored pennies or scarves tucked into their ▪16 Poly Spots pants/shorts. When the game begins teams try to sneak to the ▪Pennies or Scarves for other side of the gym and steal ring(s) from the other team. team identification When a student is able to get a ring, they bring it back and place it on one of their cones. Each cone can have no more than two rings on it. At the end of the game count up the rings to see which team has won? Students can defend their rings by tossing balls at other students anywhere in the gymnasium (not just in their own half). When a student is hit with a ball they go to a rotating jail. The jail holds only two students per team. When the third student comes to the jail the first student is back in the game. Variations: players from either team can only be tagged with a ball that sends them to jail when they are on the opponent’s side. Fruit Loops Tag Space Needed: Gym or Students kick deck rings ("fruit loops") across the gym floor trying Outside flat surface area to hit another student’s foot. A student that gets hit in the foot should complete a predetermined number of an exercise before Equipment Needed: rejoining the activity. Anyone can kick any deck ring. Variations: ▪Deck Rings (1) Have the color of each ring designate the exercise(s) to be performed. Ex: Green=run a lap, blue=jumping jacks, etc. (2) Distribute the deck rings to individual players (It’s). Each “It” tries to tag another player who then becomes “It.” Dr. John’s Training www.DrJohnsTraining.com 512-963-0139 Training for Schools, Child Care Centers, After School & Pre-K Programs committed to teaching children to be healthy for a lifetime. PAGE 2 FAVORITE GAMES Catch Up Tag (Tom and Jerry) (From PE Universe – www.peuniverse.com. Video of game can be viewed.) Space Needed: Gym or Catch Up Tag is a continuous relay game. Equipment needed outside running area includes multiple pairs of identically colored cones and deck rings/batons. The cones designate where teams stand during the game and the deck rings/batons are what each team uses to Equipment Needed: hand off to their teammates during the game. One set for each ▪Identically colored cones side of the gym. Divide your class into groups of 3 to 4. Put each ▪Deck Rings or Batons group behind a cone that has a deck ring. The object of the game is for one person in each group to run clockwise and try to catch the team with the same color deck ring as theirs. Each person can only go around once so it’s a sprint. If they can’t catch the same color in one try they must hand off the deck ring to the next person in line and the game continues. If a group is able to “catch up” or tag the same color they both stop, hold the deck ring up, and walk back to their respective starting cone. Once they get back to their group they give the deck ring to the next person in line. When the teacher sees two deck rings up in the air that are the same color they re-start those two teams. This game can continue as long as the kids are enjoying the challenge. We’ve play this for up to 30 minutes. Illinois Cone Ball (From PE Universe – www.peuniverse.com. Video of game can be viewed.) Space Needed: Gym In this game there are 2 teams and everyone has a flag belt or scarf tucked into their pants/shorts. 1 team is on offense and the Equipment Needed: other on defense. We play for 2 minutes and then switch. The team that starts on offense has 3 people start behind the ▪Flat belt with flags for all volleyball service line on end of the gym. These 3 people start the players game. Each player has a gator skin ball. They are throwing the ▪Gator Skin Ball ball to teammates who are trying to catch the ball and then ▪Gym Mats carry the ball or throw the ball to a teammate who attempts to throw it against the mat on the opposite end of the court. Any time the ball hits the ground it is dead and the ball goes back to one of the players behind the volleyball service line. The defense can stop the offense by pulling a player’s flag when they have possession of the ball. If the offensive player’s flag is pulled when they have the ball they just give the ball back to a teammate that is behind the volleyball service line. The defense may have a goalie protect the goal. We play for 2 minutes then teams switch places. Page 2 of 9 www.DrJohnsTraining.com Version 8.2014 PAGE 3 FAVORITE GAMES Great Wall of China All students line up across the baseline. Choose one student to Space Needed: Gym or be the emperor who stands on the center line of the playing outside running area area. The emperor must remain on the center line but can move laterally on it. When the emperor calls " Great Wall of China" Students may run across the gymnasium and try to cross the Equipment Needed: center line without being tagged. If tagged, they must join the ▪Either gym lines or cones emperor on the center line and try and catch other students. to indicate center line Once everyone has run to the other side of the playing area, they wait for the emperor to call them across again. Special Rules tagged students cannot pass anyone on the line. Only the emperor may call "great wall of china" Ike, Mike and Spike Students group in threes. Each group is gathered around a large Space Needed: Gym or center circle like wagon spokes. Within each group, one player is large open space Ike, one, Spike and the third is Mike. Beanbags are placed in the center circle, one less than the number of groups. For instance, if there are 20 groups of three, there should be 19 bean bags in the Equipment Needed: center. Game begins when the Teacher begins telling a story ▪Bean Bags and randomly calls out one of the three names. The player with that name runs counter clockwise around the outside of all of the teams. At the same time, the other two partners in each group join hands and make an archway or get in a pushup position and form a tunnel (teacher decides which). When each player returns to their team’s position, they run under the arch or crawl through the tunnel, go to the center circle, grab a bean bag exit back through their team’s arch or tunnel. All three players then sit down together. Each group that has successfully grabbed a bean bag receives one point. Replace beanbags back in the middle and teacher calls another one of the three names. Target Soccer An indoor soccer game. At each end of the soccer “field,” Space Needed: Gym or position baskets or small trashcans upside down with a small activity area cone on top of each (target goals). Depending on the size of your gym, 5 to 6 goals are set on each end line. Divide the class into teams of 4 to 6. Play two minute periods. A goal is scored Equipment Needed: any time a cone is knocked off the basket. Rotate on each ▪Laundry baskets or small score or at the end of the period. Maintain a fast pace. The trash cans excitement of rapid and numerous scoring creates a great atmosphere of fun and excitement for the kids. ▪Small cones Page 3 of 9 www.DrJohnsTraining.com Version 8.2014 PAGE 4 FAVORITE GAMES Swamp Ball Divide the gym/activity area into three sections along the long Space Needed: Gym or axis and distribute players equally among the three sections. The activity area section in the middle is designated the “swamp land” and its players are the alligators of the swamp. The sections on either side of the swamp are on dry land and its players are the “game Equipment Needed: wardens.” Distribute a large quantity of balls, (playground, ▪Large quantity of balls gator, yarn, Softee rubber balls, etc.) to each dry land section ▪Large containers-trash (one ball for each player in the game including the alligators.