Stash It
Grades 3-5
Footballs
Development Goal
To develop hand-eye coordination & spatial awareness.
Before You Start
Skills Practiced: Running, agility, and spatial awareness.
- Divide students into pairs.
- Make sure the hula hoops have enough space between each other.
- Remind kids to keep their head and eyes up to prevent running into another person
Set Up
Designate a large play area with clear boundaries that has enough room for students to run.
How to Play
- Hula hoops are scattered about the play area with one football in each hula hoop and partners should be seated by their hula hoop.
- On your signal to begin, all players move around the play area, grabbing footballs (one at a time) from other hula hoops (not their own) and return it to their own hoop.
- Players are not allowed to “guard” the football(s) in their hoop.
- The first team to get four footballs in their own hula hoop should yell “Bingo” and a new round will begin.
Variations
- Use different types of balls
- Incorporate Tag