Grade level: K-8 Equipment: Pins, Throwing Objects (crazier the better) Game Description: Put down your pins, and get throwing! Super fun, different ways to play for all grades.
Grade level: 4-8 Equipment: 3 dodgeballs Game Description: Here’s a new and really unique and fun dodgeball game idea from Steve Mercado (Game of the Year at his school, thanks Steve!). Very interesting strategies involved, awareness is key. Be the last player standing in 3 Ball.
Grade level: 2-8 Equipment: Exercise ball, laundry basket (or rubber bin), ball to throw Game Description: Here’s a super easy throwing, catching, and reacting game. It can be done as a stand-alone activity, or part of a station. Or set-up a few of them and have teams go at it in a competition.
Grade level: 3-8 Equipment: Hula hoops, skipping ropes, cones Game Description: Hoop It Up is a fun teamwork or team-building game with a good challenge. Score points by collecting hoops – hoop it up, scoop it up!
Grade level: 4-8 Equipment: Foam balls Game Description: Classic fun game of Sharks & Minnows but with added dodgeballs (thanks Deric Hafer for the game modification).
Grade level: 4-8 Equipment: Cones, footballs, flags Game Description: Try a few rounds of Endzone Escape to work on many football skills such as passing, punting, catching, and moving to specific spaces. Another fun game idea that passes the test of awesome games only (thanks Grant Johnson)!
Grade level: 1-6 Equipment: Cones, hula hoops, beanbags Game Description: This one is a new favourite. A little bit of a Capture the Flag feel to it – groups of pirates work together to try and steal the treasure off of the defender ship. NON-STOP ACTION, players really move in this great game idea thanks to Deric Hafer.