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Game of the Week #47: Fruit Salad
What To Do Children sit in a circle; one person is nominated to be the leader and stands in the middle of the circle. She leaves an empty space on the ground, or if playing the game in the classroom, her chair is removed from the circle. The leader stands in the...
Game of the Week #46: Beat Detective
What To Do The players form a circle. One person is chosen to act as a detective. They may be blindfolded or leave the room or playground area. One player is chosen to be the conductor of the beat. The conductor stays in his place in the circle and starts an action...
Game of the Week #45: Grannies Green Undies
What To Do This game is similar to Hide and Seek except that the player who is ‘it’ has a base (such as a tree or post) to which the other players must return, ideally without being caught. Firstly choose someone to be ‘it’. They count to 40...
Game of the Week #43: Hide and Seek
What To Do A player is first chosen to be ‘it’ (the person who would be the seeker). He turns around and counts to 20 with his eyes closed while the rest of the players hide. Then ‘it’ says, ‘Ready or not, here I come,’ and rushes...
Game of the Week #42: Seaweed
What To Do This tag game is played with defined boundaries – usually a large rectangular playing area about the size of one third of a netball court. Cones can mark the area if there are no lines. The playing area is the ocean. All players (fish) line up on one side...
Game of the Week #41: Sleeping Lions
What To Do This game is to be played at the end of more active parachute games, for example, after playing Mushroom and Fruit Salad. Ask the children to lie on the floor with their eyes closed and the parachute covering their body, but not their head and face. Tell...
