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English
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Elementary
School
Seven Up
Seven students are selected and stand at the front of the room. The rest of the students place their
heads on their hands with their eyes closed and make a fist with one hand and extend one thumb
upwards. The seven students then go around the class and each touch one person’s thumb. That
person then puts his/her thumb down. After all 7 have finished, they go back to the front of the
class, and the chosen people guess who touched them. If they are correct, they change places; if
they are not, the other person continues. Change players if necessary after 5 times.
Twister
You can buy the game, or improvise and make your own sheet. The store-bought game has four
colours, rows of blue, green, red and yellow. If you improvise, you could mix the colours up, or
even add extra colours, but be careful not to make the game too easy or it will take a long time to
get a winner. Only a few students can play at a time, but it is fun to watch. Have a Twister sheet, or
tape laminated coloured circles onto the floor. Pull instructions out of a hat. Call out instructions:
“Left hand on red”, “Right foot on blue” etc. Continue until one or all of them lose their balance
and fall down (they must stand - only hands and feet should touch the floor).
Tunnel Ball
Have the children make two teams. Each team stands in single file, and everyone stands with their
legs apart. The student at the front rolls a ball (a medicine ball is best, but any large ball will do)
down the tunnel formed by the team’s legs. The person at the end stands about 1 metre back from
the team, waits for the ball and then runs with it to the front of the line. As this player is running,
the whole team shuffles back - the team always has to be behind a certain line. Continue until the
first person to roll the ball is at the front of the line again, and everyone sits down to show they are
finished. The first team to finish wins.
Poison Ball
The playing area is a big circle. Five people stand outside the circle and roll balls through the circle.
All the people standing in the circle have to avoid getting hit, otherwise they are out and join the
people rolling the balls. The last person standing in the circle wins. Do not throw the balls - only
roll them.
Drop Ball
Form pairs. The kids throw a ball (tennis ball size) back and forth. If one child drops the ball, his/
her partner has to call out “one knee!”, and the kid who dropped the ball gets down on one knee. If
the same kid drops the ball again his/her partner says “two knees!”. The next steps are “one
elbow!”, “two elbows!” and “chin!”. If you drop the ball when you have both knees, elbows and
chin on the floor, you are out. And remember, you have to stay in position to throw and catch.
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