20
(2 teams of 10)

10
(2 teams of five etc)

Two teams of 10 stand facing a wall with a ball each.

The first player throws the ball so it bounces off the wall in a way which enables them to jump over it and for the ball to bounce on before being caught by the player behind who repeats the action.

The first team to finish after doing it correctly are the winners.

Runner beans - run anywhere

Jumping beans - jump up and down

Chilli beans - shiver

Baked beans - lie flat on the floor/freeze

Frozen beans - stand still

Everyone sits in a circle

Nominate one person to be outside the circle

Spin a plastic bottle in the centre.

The two people it points to have to change places and the one on the outside of the circle has to get into the other peoples space.

The one on the outside cannot move until the bottle stops.

You have 6 buckets in a square and 12 players.

6 players have to put balls into their buckets and the 6 others have to remove the balls.

The one with most balls at the end wins.

The players who are removing the balls have to go clockwise round the square and are not allowed to turn round!

4 different coloured cones

Tags

Place 4 different coloured cones in the 4 corners of the hall.

Divide the children into 4 groups, each at a corner.

Stage 1 -The teacher calls out 2 colours and the children at these 2 coloured corners change places. (emphasise safety - they will be running towards each other at speed)!

Put 1 child in the middle as a catcher, each child has 3 lives. When a child is caught they lose one life.

The game can be stopped when the first child loses all 3 lives. In this way no child is left sitting out.

Change the catcher frequently as they become tired fairly quickly.

Large group is best, 15+

Choose 2 players to be “sharks” they stand at one end of the playing area

All the other players are “fish” and they stand at the other side of the playing area

When the 2 sharks call out “FISHY FISHY CROSS MY OCEAN” all the fishy have to run to the opposite end of the playing area without getting tagged by a shark.

If you are tagged, then you turn into “seaweed”. They must stand still on the spot that they got tagged, and try to touch other fish as they pass by. If they do, then they too turn into seaweed.

The game ends when everyone has been turned into “seaweed”

Lots of beanbags

Floor markers or cones

4 hoops

Ask the children to name as many birds as they can.

4 are selected and their “nest” (a hoop) is placed in each corner of the room.

The class are divided equally between the 4 corners.

Story: In the middle of the room is a large field, in which the farmers corn (large amount of beanbags or similar) has been growing all summer and is just about to be harvested. The farmer is guarding his corm from the greedy birds.

When the teacher calls out “the farmer is about” the birds fly around the field; thy are not allowed into the field or they will be caught by the farmer (out of the game)

When the teacher calls out “the farmer is asleep”, the birds swoop down and carry off one piece of corn at a time back to their nest. When all the corn has disappeared, the birds count their corn to find out which are the greediest!

Large groups are best

People should get into pairs and sit down facing each other with their feet touching. The pairs should arrange themselves so that they are forming a ladder, with their legs being the rungs. The participants on one side of the ladder are one team and the other side are another team. Each pair has a number.

When the leader calls out a number, the pair with that number, have to stand up, run up over the other rungs, round the back of the ladder and back up the rungs until they get back to their spot… they are trying to beat their partner back.

However get back first scores a point for their team.

The game ends when every pair has had a run through the ladder at least once, or when the team reaches at set amount of points, which have been determined prior to the start of the game.

Children in lines of 3 or 4 at one end of the gym.

Place a large piece of paper with the outline of a face drawn on it plus a pencil

Children in turn run up to the paper and fill in one feature at a time according to what is called out by the teacher.

Simple instructions such as eyes, nose or comic ideas such as elephant nose, clown eyes and monkey mouth. You can also add extras such as freckles, hat etc.

Extend the idea, use a whole body picture, older children can add muscles or organs.

Children can hop, skip, jump to the picture.

There is no winning team just a collection of funny pictures

Pac Man

6 or more

Two people are chosen to be pac man

The rest of the players must walk around the gym area, following any of the painted lines on the floor.

The pac man will chase thee players along the lines, with their arms extended and clapping as if they were a mouth.

Once a player has been caught, they turn into a pac man.

The game is over when all the players have been turned into pac men.

(Please note this is a walking game, do not run, and keep your head up so you are aware of people around you.)

Point to the side - children run there

Wave fingers - jump on the spot

Circle fist - sit/stand and spin

One finger- tip toes

Point away - go backwards on tiptoe

Get a group of 4 children. 1 person is the fish, 1 person is the shark and the other 2 make a cave by forming an arch into which the fish can hide when threatened (tagged) by the shark

When “food” is called, the fish have to change caves without getting tagged.

Repeat with 4 equal time periods so everyone has a go!

Scatter more hoops than you have children all over the floor

Tell the children they must jump with feet together from hoop to hoop

Gradually take some hoops away

A child is out if they touch the hoop or jump into a hoop with someone else.