Players partner up and stand creating two concentric circles so that one stands on the inner circle facing clockwise while the other one stands in the outer circle facing anti-clockwise. When told, each circle runs in the direction they are facing until the leader calls out ‘partners’. Players then...
Articles with the Tag movement
“Mother May I?”
One person is chosen to be Mother (or Father) and stands at one end of a room while everybody else lines up against the wall on the other side (if playing outdoors choose a tree or object for the ‘Mother’ to stand by and everybody else to make their...
Dancing Feet
At a given signal, players alternate from running on the spot very quickly to running around. Can be played to music with change in status happening to the music, eg running around while music playing, running on the spot while the music is stopped, back to running around when...
Shipwreck
Equipment: Hoops or chalked circles of various sizes scattered around the playing area. Players are told that these hoops or chalked circles are islands and they have to be standing in them to be safe from the sharks the signal is given. Also each hoop can only hold so...
Standing Statues (for audience)
Adaptation of Musical Statues for an audience to take part or can be used where players have limited opportunity to move. Possibly for younger children. Play as musical statues (where children would normally move around and then freeze when the music stops. Anybody caught moving while the music has...
Follow the Leader
Can either be done as a one large group or break into smaller ones. The larger the group the less likely it will be for everybody to be synchronized. Each group nominates a leader who then proceeds to carry out a series of actions which everybody else then has...
Criss Cross
Simple game. Divide into 4 teams. Send each team into a corner. The object of the game is to see which team can get to the opposite (diagonal) corner the fastest, using the method the leader calls out (eg. if the leader calls out “hopping,” the teams must hop...