Category: Warm-up

Banana Tag

· ALL, Gr 1, Gr 2, Gr 3, Gr 4, Gr 5, K, Large Group, No Equipment!, Outdoor, Tag, Warm-up

Grade level: K-5
Equipment: None
Game Description: Such a simple tag game; kids go bananas, literally! As players get tagged, they must curve their bodies into the shape of a banana. Someone else will come along and ‘peel’ them so that they are free.

Man From Mars

· ALL, Gr 1, Gr 2, Gr 3, Gr 4, K, No Equipment!, Outdoor, Tag, Warm-up

Grade level: K-4
Equipment: None
Game Description: ‘Man from Mars can you take us to the stars?’ – Only if you’re wearing the color green! The Man from Mars tries to tag the runners who are wearing the colors he calls out. Each round he calls out a new color. Anyone tagged joins him in the middle to help. Another imaginative type of physical education game, tag-style. Read More →

Animals

· ALL, Fun, Gr 1, Gr 2, K, Large Group, No Equipment!, Outdoor, Small Group, Warm-up

Grade level: K-2
Equipment: None
Game Description: Such a simple warm-up game! Choose a theme – for example, the jungle. Then students can choose a jungle animal that they will pretend to be, perhaps a monkey or parrot, and spend a minute moving around like that animal, making the animal noises. After a minute, change the theme. For example, the arctic. Students will then choose an arctic animal like a penguin or seal and do the same thing.

Hoop Pass

· ALL, Gr 1, Gr 2, Gr 3, Gr 4, Gr 5, Gr 6, Gr 7, Gr 8, K, Large Group, Outdoor, Team-building, Warm-up

Grade level: K-8
Equipment: Hula Hoop
Game Description: Team-building game. A group holds hands in a circle or line and passes a hula hoop from player to player without breaking the chain-link. Not as easy as it sounds! Time trials, team vs. team, or large group are all fun ways to play this game.

Pacman

· ALL, Gr 1, Gr 2, Gr 3, Gr 4, Gr 5, K, No Equipment!, Tag, Warm-up

Grade level: K-5
Equipment: None
Game Description: In the Pacman physical education game, all players must stay on the lines. The Pacman will go around clapping his hands together like a giant Pacman mouth, trying to tag the other players. Once tagged, players also become a Pacman until everyone has been caught – then it’s time for a new round! Great for spatial awareness and switching directions.

Fitness Ball Run

· ALL, Fitness, Gr 2, Gr 3, Gr 4, Gr 5, Gr 6, Gr 7, Gr 8, Outdoor, Small Group, Warm-up

Grade level: 2-8
Equipment: Any type of ball
Game Description: Fitness Ball Run is a fitness warm-up type activity that’s simple to set-up and simple to do! Players start by forming a line. That line will jog throughout the playing area. While they jog, they pass a ball back from person to person, and when it gets to the last person in line, that person sprints up to the front with the ball, and becomes the new leader. The game continues like that for a certain amount of time.

Great Wall

· ALL, Gr 1, Gr 2, Gr 3, Gr 4, K, No Equipment!, Tag, Warm-up

Grade level: K-4
Equipment: None
Game Description: This tag game is similar to a British Bulldog style game, except when players are tagged, they start forming a wall across the middle that increasingly grows bigger as more players are tagged. Players who aren’t tagged will try to dodge the tagger, but also must go under, around, or passed the wall without making contact. Try it out and form your own Great Wall in your gym! Read More →

Continuous Tag