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LARGE GROUPS
How many times do you find yourself with a large group of children or even adults and need to entertain them for a few moments, or need to give them a brain? Here are some ways that you can keep them busy, some even without needing extra space? |
1. 5-4-3-2-1
Choose five movement activities such as hand shakes, jumping jacks, squats or whatever you like. Assign each of the activities a number and you do the activity the same number of times, counting down from five. For example you would do five hand shakes, 4 jumping jacks, 3, squats, 2 high knees, and 1 arm roll.
2. Sports Exercises
Choose any sport that interests you or your audience. Pick a few moves from the sports and show examples. For example ski jumps, you keep your feet together and jump side to side, snowboarding doing a 360 turn, soccer doing foot work or whatever you can think of. Go through each one with the students and run through them all in sequence.
3. Simon Says
Everyone knows how to play this game, and its quite popular in a lot of groups. For those who have never played it, there is Simon who has to get people to do things like wave their hands, put their hands on their shoulder or whatever. Simon has to say "Simon Says" before each action for people to do it. If they do not say "Simon Says" people who do the action are out.
4. One, Two, Three
Students will chose partner. Introduce what one, two, and three are. For one, students will do a plank and shake hands with their partner; for two, partner will be back to back sitting on the floor and trying to stand up back to back without using their hands. For three they will stand back to back and turn on three. Call out a number and partners will do the challenge.
5. Cheers or Chants
Find a simple cheer that you can teach the students in a few minutes. Break it down into steps so it is easier to follow. It is something that you can always come back to. Students love it.
6. Steal the Shoe Plank
Place a shoe in the middle of partners doing a plank. On the goal is to grab the shoe on the count of three.
7. Rock Paper Scissor Chicken Hatch
Everyone starts as a chick in an egg, doing a squat walk around. Find a partner to play rock paper scissors with, whoever wins gets to grow into stage 2 of a chicken. If you lose, you have to go back to a chick. The goal is to get through all the stages of growing. You can decide how many stages you want them to grow through. Once you have grown up, you go back to a chick.
8. Icy Feet
The goal of this game is to step on your partner's foot three times before they step on your foot three times. Once one partner has stepped on their partner's foot three times they have to find a new partner to play with.
9. Voting With Feet
This is a great way for you to get your students and students to get to know each other and finding commonalities without making them feel center of attention. Students will either walk to the left or right or stay in the middle of they are neutral. Ask them if they like Oreo walk to the left or chocolate chip cookies walking to the write. You can do this with food, beverages, superheros, or anything else you can think of.
10. Rock, Paper, Scissors with Feet
Instead of just using your hands to play, you will use your feet. Rock is moving your feet together, paper is moving your feet in front of each other and scissors is moving them apart to each side.
11. Rock, Paper, Scissor with Body
This is similar to the rock, paper, scissors as the game above just using moving your body. Scissors is stretching your hands up and feet apart, like you are doing jumping jacks, rock is hunched down doing a squat and paper is hands to the side of your body.
12. Name Pantomime
Each person chooses an action-word to go with their name (e.g., "Swimming Sam"), then shows the action to the group who repeat it. Whole-body way to introduce oneself & learn people's names.
Retrieved from http://wilderdom.com/games/PhysicalActivities.html
13. Mirror Image
Involves people in pairs, with one person mirroring the actions of the other. Stimulates self- and other-awareness.
Retrieved from http://wilderdom.com/games/PhysicalActivities.html
14. Chicken Stretch
A physical warm-up activity with humorous twist. Demo 3 different stretches which, when put together, turns you into a squawking chicken (hen). Works with any age.
Retrieved from http://wilderdom.com/games/PhysicalActivities.html
15. Create a Handshake
Students find a partner and create a handshake. Students try to be creative and repeat it until they know each step and flows smooth.
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Choose five movement activities such as hand shakes, jumping jacks, squats or whatever you like. Assign each of the activities a number and you do the activity the same number of times, counting down from five. For example you would do five hand shakes, 4 jumping jacks, 3, squats, 2 high knees, and 1 arm roll.
2. Sports Exercises
Choose any sport that interests you or your audience. Pick a few moves from the sports and show examples. For example ski jumps, you keep your feet together and jump side to side, snowboarding doing a 360 turn, soccer doing foot work or whatever you can think of. Go through each one with the students and run through them all in sequence.
3. Simon Says
Everyone knows how to play this game, and its quite popular in a lot of groups. For those who have never played it, there is Simon who has to get people to do things like wave their hands, put their hands on their shoulder or whatever. Simon has to say "Simon Says" before each action for people to do it. If they do not say "Simon Says" people who do the action are out.
4. One, Two, Three
Students will chose partner. Introduce what one, two, and three are. For one, students will do a plank and shake hands with their partner; for two, partner will be back to back sitting on the floor and trying to stand up back to back without using their hands. For three they will stand back to back and turn on three. Call out a number and partners will do the challenge.
5. Cheers or Chants
Find a simple cheer that you can teach the students in a few minutes. Break it down into steps so it is easier to follow. It is something that you can always come back to. Students love it.
6. Steal the Shoe Plank
Place a shoe in the middle of partners doing a plank. On the goal is to grab the shoe on the count of three.
7. Rock Paper Scissor Chicken Hatch
Everyone starts as a chick in an egg, doing a squat walk around. Find a partner to play rock paper scissors with, whoever wins gets to grow into stage 2 of a chicken. If you lose, you have to go back to a chick. The goal is to get through all the stages of growing. You can decide how many stages you want them to grow through. Once you have grown up, you go back to a chick.
8. Icy Feet
The goal of this game is to step on your partner's foot three times before they step on your foot three times. Once one partner has stepped on their partner's foot three times they have to find a new partner to play with.
9. Voting With Feet
This is a great way for you to get your students and students to get to know each other and finding commonalities without making them feel center of attention. Students will either walk to the left or right or stay in the middle of they are neutral. Ask them if they like Oreo walk to the left or chocolate chip cookies walking to the write. You can do this with food, beverages, superheros, or anything else you can think of.
10. Rock, Paper, Scissors with Feet
Instead of just using your hands to play, you will use your feet. Rock is moving your feet together, paper is moving your feet in front of each other and scissors is moving them apart to each side.
11. Rock, Paper, Scissor with Body
This is similar to the rock, paper, scissors as the game above just using moving your body. Scissors is stretching your hands up and feet apart, like you are doing jumping jacks, rock is hunched down doing a squat and paper is hands to the side of your body.
12. Name Pantomime
Each person chooses an action-word to go with their name (e.g., "Swimming Sam"), then shows the action to the group who repeat it. Whole-body way to introduce oneself & learn people's names.
Retrieved from http://wilderdom.com/games/PhysicalActivities.html
13. Mirror Image
Involves people in pairs, with one person mirroring the actions of the other. Stimulates self- and other-awareness.
Retrieved from http://wilderdom.com/games/PhysicalActivities.html
14. Chicken Stretch
A physical warm-up activity with humorous twist. Demo 3 different stretches which, when put together, turns you into a squawking chicken (hen). Works with any age.
Retrieved from http://wilderdom.com/games/PhysicalActivities.html
15. Create a Handshake
Students find a partner and create a handshake. Students try to be creative and repeat it until they know each step and flows smooth.
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