AKA: Cone Mágico
Suggested by Professora Bianca (@biancaavanco) who comments this game helps with practising fine motor coordination, 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 (able to touch each others shoulders when arms outstretched) and able to easily pass the cone to the next player. The ball is placed in the middle of the circle. Players then take it turns 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. Everybody else is now a fugitive (or the hunted), and have to get up and run away from the circle to avoid being caught 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 be standing still to throw. Ball must hit players below the waist (or below the knees if preferred) to count. Anything above does not count and to be avoided.
Can play it that only one person needs to be tagged before everybody comes back into the circle to start flipping the cone again, or 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, it is better that the dodgeball element takes up less time each round.
