Foxes and Bunnies

As we develop

Activity
Gymnastics
Gymnastics

Instructions

Fox

  • Start on your hands and feet
  • Try to ‘run’ on your hands and feet

Bunny

  • Keep your arms straight when you take your weight
  • Angry Cat chest
  • Stay ‘angry’ when you take your weight
  • Hop by moving from hands to feet to hands to feet

Questions

How quickly and lightly can you move around the room?

Further Teaching Points

Fox

  • Pupils should try to keep an Angry Cat shape
  • Keep arms straight
  • Pupils move opposite arms, opposite leg

Bunny

  • Pupils should try to keep an Angry Cat shape
  • Keep arms straight
  • Try to lift their bottoms high when they hop
  • The action is hands to feet, hands to feet, keeping hands flat

Body Conditioning

Improves

  • Strength of shoulders, arms and wrists
  • Stamina

Adapting the activity

  • Enable

    • Practise moving as a fox only
    • Practise bunny hops only
    • Have lots of bunnies, few foxes
  • Challenge

    • Increase number of foxes
    • Bunnies to try to extend hop during game
    • Bunnies to use a different caught shape, e.g. star, ship, crab etc.

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