Gym ideas

Triangle tag: students get in groups of 5. Three students join hands and form a triangle. One student is inside the triangle and another student is outside the triangle with a ball. The student on the outside tries to tag the student on the inside with the ball as the triangle moves to protect the inside player from being tagged. Students rotate after every minute. 

Meatball and spaghetti: students get into groups of 3 and scatter around the gym. The groups of 3 must form a line and hold hands (like a piece of spaghetti). The teacher stands in the centre of the gym and with a paddle or racquet continuously hitting a large light ball or balloon for the strands of spaghetti to catch. Once the ball comes towards the spaghetti the group that is going to catch it must call “meatball” so the other groups of spaghetti know to move out of the way. The spaghetti must move together and position themselves for the ends of spaghetti to come together to catch the ball. They must hold hands at all times. Once the ball is caught, the players must rotate positions. The ball is thrown back to the teacher. Keep the fame up until every team has caught the ball at least twice. 

Soccer baseball: divide groups into 2 teams – one team in field, one team at bat. Using a soft sturdy large ball the pitcher rolls the ball on the floor towards the batter. The batter kicks e ball into play. Baseball rules now apply. The batter runs the bases and the fielders get him/her out by touching any base when the runner is off a base. Teacher is umpire and counts the runs. When everybody was hit, change teams from fielders to batters and vice versa. 

Slithering snake: the students stand side by side around the perimeter of the gym with their arms outstretched and touching the shoulder of the person next to them. The first person in line gets down low and slide steps under the arm of the first person next to them and around the back, then through the arm of the second person and around the front in an S formation. E second person in line immediately follows e first person in line. Each player continues to follow the player before them until the snake slithers all the way around the gym and every person has played.