Sports games for elementary school

What you need:

• Ropes / wool
• stopwatch
• Carpet remnants
• music

Cooperative sports game ideas

Sports games in the primary school don't always have to be competitive, you should also choose games that call for team work.

• Use several skipping ropes or wool to stretch a "spider web" between two attachment points. The net must consist of openings of different sizes through which a child of his size can fit. It takes as many openings as there are children. The children have the task of crossing the dangerous spider web together as a group. However, each opening may only be used once to pass through.
• The children have to do some thinking in advance to plan who can get through where and how. The lower openings in the net are still easy to navigate, but how is a child supposed to get through the upper holes? This game requires creative solutions, it can also be installed as a "station" for a larger jungle adventure. Give the children a time limit to increase the level of difficulty.
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• "Everyone moves like". This game is still popular with younger children in elementary school. The game master plays a brisk melody in the background, with which the children move around the room. At his command "Everyone move like ...", all children have to move such as "monkeys", "snails", "ghosts" or "dancers".
• You can also modify this game by playing "Everyone says hello like ...". The children can greet each other like "fine ladies", "French" or "among friends".


Outdoor games in elementary school for physical education class

In order to make the physical education in elementary school exciting, games are suitable, ...

Game ideas in elementary school

Fast sports games require a great deal of exercise.

• In the sports game "Crossing the Swamp", you have to divide the children into two groups. Each group receives one more mat (small pieces of carpet) than there are children. Select a start and an end point between which the children should move using the mats.
• To make the whole thing more interesting, you can use a story invent: "You have to overcome a muddy, dark swamp that can only be crossed by thick stones. The winner is the group that is the first to leave the swamp dry and without losses. " 
• The children line up one behind the other. The first player stands on his "stone". Now the children have to pass the mats to the front in order to slide one stone further without losing the ground under their feet.
• A fast sports game with a lot of movement is the variant of a ball game: all children move around the room. One child gets the ball and must try to hit the other children with the ball. The children hit stand on a bench, they have to remember who threw them off.
• The ball can be picked up by any other child to throw more children. If a child is hit who has already put other children on the bench, these children are "free" and get back into the game. There are no real winners or losers in this sports game.
• Finally, a nice variation on a catch game: Divide the children into two groups and place them in a row. Behind each group there is an "off line" a few meters away. One group listens to the command "cats", the other to "dogs".
• If one of the two commands is called by you as the game master, the respective group must rescue behind the "off line" before it is caught by the opposing group and into them changes.