Let's Play
- Eight children in each garden
- Two shape shifters, six holding a shape
- Shape shifters move around space working as hard as they can to tag shape holders
- Shape holders hold one shape and when tagged move to hold another shape until tagged again
- Change shape shifter regularly
- Work for a set period of time
Safety & Organisation
Ensure:
- surface is safe and free from obstructions
- children can relax when they cannot hold the shape any longer and join in again when they can
Opportunities to
- use their creative skills with improving co-ordination and control
- show improved tension and clearer shapes to develop stamina and strength
- sustain activity over appropriate periods of time
- develop sequencing
Questions
- How did you feel when you were the shape shifter?
- How did you feel when you were holding a shape?
- Why are these activities important for you to do regularly?
- How could you improve the way you move from one shape to another?
Changes to the activity
Change the:
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Space
- play in a larger space to hold shape for longer, smaller space quick changes in shape
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Task
- way the shape shifters move – run, walk, crawling soldier, crab, scorpion, foxes, bunnies, camel walking, frog hopping, pogo jumping – see Modules 1, 2 and 3 PESS Gymnastics
- shape held, e.g. happy cat, angry cat, cup, saucer, sky diver, pike, straddle, dish, arch, front support, back support, side support, shoulder stand, etc. – see Modules 1, 2 and 3 PESS Gymnastics
- way to move from one shape to another, e.g. spin, roll, flip shape first before moving into next shape, perform a short sequence of actions before holding another shape
- amount of time the activity is played
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Equipment
- to perform shapes on or with equipment
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People
- number of shape shifters, shape holders, etc.