You will need: Parachute (play or otherwise) Small soft ball Place a light-weight football on the chute surface and experiment with moving it. What happens when you shake the parachute, can you flip the ball off over people’s head? Can you develop a wave technique that will cause the...
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French Cricket
Equipment: Small ball such as a tennis ball. Suggestion that you use a soft ball if playing indoors or with young children Cricket bat. Virtually no preparation is needed for this, just some space to hit a ball around (without damaging things or players). Although this can be...
Flag Rugy / Flag Football (Soft tackles)
Sent in by Lisa Wells Considering the current discussion and recommendations in the UK to ban tacking in rugby for under 18’s at school (BBC Newsround (2016), Guardian (2016)). The question remains how would you tackle then? This is one way. Play as American style football, or English rugby....
Duck!
Sent in by Michael Pacioni Similar to Dodge Ball, but placed here as it uses smaller balls. For 3 – 10 players and a number of small soft or bouncy balls. Draw a line across the playing area. One person stands behind this and tries to hit players on...
Crocker
Equipment: 2 base posts 1 large ball 1 rounders bat (baseball bats can be used, but rounders bats are better) Play: Place the base posts about 4m apart from each other. Best thought of as a simplified version of cricket. Divide players into 2 teams or alternatively have everybody...
Cricket Soccer
Cricket, but played by kicking a football. Divide into two equal(ish) teams one one fielding the other taking it in turn to bat. Set up two cricket stumps or cones to act as the wickets with the bowler throwing or rolling the football underarm to the batsman from about...