Frogs & Ants
Grade Level: 3-6
Skills Developed: Cooperation, teamwork, spatial awareness, safety, locomotor and non-locomotor skills.
Equipment Needed: 1-3 pinnies, 5-8 hula hoops
How to Play:
Designate a playing area with clear boundaries. Scatter the hula hoops around the playing area.
Additional Notes:
Skills Developed: Cooperation, teamwork, spatial awareness, safety, locomotor and non-locomotor skills.
Equipment Needed: 1-3 pinnies, 5-8 hula hoops
How to Play:
Designate a playing area with clear boundaries. Scatter the hula hoops around the playing area.
- Before playing the game, explain the rules and how students will need to cooperate - work together safely and nicely - in order for the game to be successful.
- Choose a few students to be "frogs". Give the "frogs" pinnies to wear.
- At the signal (whistle), the frogs move around the playing area trying to tag other students who are the "ants".
- When a player gets tagged they must lay on their back with their feet and hands extended in the air.
- At this point, the ants that have not been tagged can try to "save" their fellow ants by getting four ants to carry and set the "hurt" and inside a "lily pad" (hula hoop). Have students demonstrate how to safely carry a "hurt" ant and how to carefully set them down on the ground.
- When all four ants are attached to the "hurt" ant they cannot be tagged by the frogs.
- After the ant is placed down inside a lily pad, all five ants have two seconds to get away before they can be tagged by the frogs.
- The game is over when all the ants have been tagged and are laying on their backs.
- Choose the last few ants that get tagged to be the frogs for the next round.
Additional Notes:
- If the game ends to quickly, bring the students back in to discuss cooperation among the ants. Discuss how ants who don`t help others, in order to keep playing, actually make the game end quicker. Explain to students how sometimes we must help others in order to make things work better for ourselves. (Plus, it`s just nice to help others!)
- At the end of each game, take a few minutes to discuss the positives and negatives from the game.