AKA: Bambolê resgate
Brilliant game suggested by Marcos Renato Araujo (@edf.prof.marcos) but you will need a lot of hula-hoops or equivalent, as this game works taking advantage of the fact they are portable and provide a raised edge to stop the ball rolling too far.
Equipment:
- Lots of hula-hoops.
- Ball for each team
Large hall or court with the space to play. Marcos uses half of a 5-a-side football pitch.
[If you have some small throw-able bean-bags, you could consider using these instead of balls and instead of hoops using large or letter sized pieces of card or paper. Adjusting the throwing distance to account for smaller target areas.]
Play:
Decide where the players will throw from and at an appropriate distance from the players lay the hoops out flat, on the ground next to each other and not overlapping. There’s no defined distance for the hoops from the players, but judge what will work with the age and skill level of your group and what you are trying to achieve.
Players on each team, take turns to roll the ball from the starting line, aiming for it to finish rolling inside a hoop. If the ball ends up in a hoop the player runs and retrieves that hoop and the ball and brings it back to their team, then passes the ball to the next team member. If the ball misses and does not end up in a hoop the player just retrieves the ball, to pass onto the next player.
Keep going either until all the hoops have been collected or for a set time period. The team with the most hoops wins.
You can play this with more than two teams competing against each other at the same time or only one group with the challenge to see how many they collect in a set time (or how long it takes to collect all of them).
Educationally there is a lot of coordination and motor control involved to get the accuracy and control of sending the ball with just the right amount of energy so it ends up in the targeted hoop.
