AKA: Cone Mágico
Suggested by Professora Bianca (@biancaavanco) who comments this game helps with practising fine and gross motor coordination, agility and speed.
Equipment
Appropriate size ball that can be used as a dodgeball – ie size and weight depending on the age of your players. Remember softer balls are harder to throw any distance than harder balls.
Small cone that can be flipped.
Hall or largish playing area that has enough space to let players run around.
Play
Players start by sitting crossed-legged, or otherwise, in a smallish circle so that they are able to easily pass the cone to the player either side of them. The ball is placed in the middle of the circle. Players then take it in-turn to flip the cone upwards so that it spins. If it lands on its side it is passed to the next player, but if it lands and remains the right way up, the player who flipped it immediately becomes the chaser.
The chaser gets up and grabs the ball from the centre, while everybody also gets up and and runs away, to avoid being tagged by ball, thrown by the chaser.
There are no rules given governing how the chaser can tag others. A good rule though is the chaser may run with the ball, but must stand still to throw. Ball also must hit players below the waist (or below the knees if preferred) to count. Anything above does not count and to be avoided.
If you want quick changes between players, play it so that only one or a few players have to be tagged before everybody comes back into the circle to start again and flipping the cone. Alternatively see how many people the chaser can catch in a set time. As much of the fun/focus is flipping the cone to decide who becomes the catcher.
