aka 'Witches Glue Pot' Play as with dodge ball, but instead of sitting out to the side players have to sit down where they were standing when they were tagged out. From there, they can help with the tagging of any players who get close enough to be touched....
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Butt-in-the-way
A dodgeball variant. Use one or two large/ish (volleyball or football sized) balls. The softer the ball the slower it is and easier to dodge and better for young children, but I’ve found that older children prefer playing with a faster, harder ball which requires more skill to dodge,...
Keep Away
Players stand in a large circle. One player is ‘It’ and is free to move around in the centre of the circle. Players pass the ball either way around the circle and try to stop the person who is ‘It’ from intercepting the ball. If this happens ‘It’ changes...
Pursuits
Equipment: 2 coits (small rubber rings) or relay batons Preparation: Need a rectangular marked out area or tennis court. 2 teams / A cross between relay races and cycle pursuit on foot. Teams stand at opposite corners of the pitch with the first player of each holding the coit....
Dog and Bone
Equipment: Small throw-able (hand sized) bean-bag or some other small unbreakable object. Divide into two teams of equal numbers. Place the bean-bag in the middle of the room, teams can either sit in a big/wide circle around this or in two lines down the edges of a playing area....
Capture the Flag
You can be playing this for hours or minutes, you never know!” Submitted by Rachel W. Divide into two teams and mark the middle of the playing area using a rope or chalk to mark the boundary between the two teams areas. Each team then hides a flag or...
Australia
Sent in by Ashley Hoover, Iowa, USA Need: Two chalk erasers or similar to act as relay batons Four cones used to mark the corners of a fairly large square or rectangle. As in a relay the first player in each team starts holding the blackboard/chalk eraser/baton. Both players...