Games

Orange tiger

The children absolutely love this game!

The teacher (or one child) stands on one side of the hall, the other children on the other side. The teacher shouts: “Who is afraid of the orange tiiiii-ger?!”

The children answer: “No-one!”

The teacher asks: “And if I come?”

The children answer: “Then we run a-way!”

The teacher shouts: “RAAAW!” – and both sides start running!

The children have to reach the other side of the hall (where the teacher is) and touch the wall. When they touch the wall, they are save. But before they can reach the wall, the teacher has to catch as many of them as he cans. Every child that has been caught, turns to be a tiger as well.

Next round: The teacher and all the caught children are the tigers, standing on the other side of the hall now. On the opposide wall, the remaining humans have to stand. The game starts again…

Who is afraid of the orange tigers?

No-one!

And if we come?

Then we run away!

RAAAW!!

Until the last human standing (=the winner).

 

Hide and seek

We had to show the children how to hide in proper places, and especially to not hide with ALL of their friends in the same place!

Sporting exercises

Circle your arms! Left arm/Right arm/Both arms.

Jumping Man! (Hampelmann)

Jump on one foot! Left foot/Right foot.

Try to touch your toes with your fingers.

Run on the spot. Faster! Faster! Stop! Sneak on the spot. Stamp on the spot.

Hop like a frog.

Crawl like a cat.

Spin like a helicopter.

Box in the air.

We are going on a lion hunt

A circle made of our chairs was our safe home, where we started the hunt. The teacher was the hunt leader who lead the children through the hall giving instructions: Run! Push the high grass away! Walk through the mud… Swim trough the river! Hop from stone to stone! Crawl… and so on. After a while, the group sees a tiger (another teacher). The lion-teacher start now hunting the children group who hurry the same way back home. When they are safe inside of the chair circle, they are tired and rest. We make a 30 seconds “siesta”!

Mackenzie-Makkarena

Mackenzie was the name of our school, you can put the name of your school!

I know a school and it´s called Mackenzie

It´s my school, it´s so cool,

We all love Mackenzie!

I know a school and it´s really fancy,

Eey Mackenzie! Ay!

The place to my right is free

The place to my right is free,

Shamilu, please come to me! (As what should I come? Come as a tiger!)

Tunnel-Crawling

Arrange the children in two competitive rows. When you shout “start, crawl!” The last child in the row has to crawl under the legs of the other children and stand at the front of the row. Every child has to crawl. The first group that has had all its members crawling through its row, has won.

You can also play it backwards: The first child in the row has to crawl backwards to the end of the row…

Musical Chairs/ Journey to Jerusalem

Special rules: Put some chairs together in the middle of the hall. In the beginning, there should be as many chairs as children. Each child sits down on one chair. When the music starts playing, the children have to jump off the chairs and start dancing around the chairs. The teacher takes one chair away quickly. The music stops, and the children have to sit down immediately. Normally, the last child that doesn´t get a chair drops out of the game and the game goes on until there is only one chair and one winner left.

But a nicer possibility especially for little children is to tell the children that all of them have to sit down on the chairs that are left, they have to share the space and sit one on the lap of the other. Every round, there are less chairs left and the game becomes funny and tricky!

Squeak Piggy, Squeak!

All children stand in a circle. One child is chosen and gets its eyes covered with a cloth. The teacher twists the child around a bit, to make it lose orientation. Then the child starts walking around and has to touch another child, asking it: “Squeak, piggy squeak!” The other child has to say “squeak!” and the first child has to guess, who it has touched. “Is it Max?” The group of children has to anwer yes or no! If the child has guessed correctly, it can stand in the circle with the other children and Max gets his eyes covered…

Lazy Egg

All children stand in a circle. One child is chosen and gets its eyes covered with a cloth. The teacher twists the child around a bit, to make it lose orientation. Then the child starts walking around and has to touch another child, asking it: “Squeak, piggy squeak!” The other child has to say “squeak!” and the first child has to guess, who it has touched. “Is it Max?” The group of children has to anwer yes or no! If the child has guessed correctly, it can stand in the circle with the other children and Max gets his eyes covered…