Lily Pads and Bull Rushes

As we progress

Activity
Gymnastics
Gymnastics

Instructions

  • Pupils select either lily pad (standing in wide star shape) or bullrushes position (standing in tall straight shape).
  • A small number of pupils are shape changers. Shape changers move by running. These pupils agree to work as hard and as fast as they can.
  • When tagged by a shape changer, the pupils who were lily pads change to frog hopping and the pupils who were bullrushes change to pogo jumping.
  • They must continue until they are caught again and then they return to their original position.

Body Conditioning

  • Stamina and strength

Adapting the activity

  • Enable

    • Practise Frog Hopping
    • Practise Pogo Jumping
    • Practise Star Shape
    • Practise Straight Shape
    • Start with everybody doing either lily to frog or bullrushes to pogo in small garden areas, then join two areas together
    • Limit the amount of time the game is played for
  • Challenge

    • Encourage shape changers to set targets for how many pupils they are going to tag in a certain amount of time
    • Encourage jumping in different directions
    • Extend the amount of time the game is played for
    • Increase the number of shape changers

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