Components of Fitness Games
Goal:
Goal:
Here are some fun games to help you improve your dribbling abilities!
Go shoot some hoops. You don't need an actual basketball. You can improvise with a cardboard box and any ball.
Equipment: None
Group Size: 1+
Object: Perform manipulative movements without any equipment.
Rules:
- Students complete the skills or exercises without any equipment.
- Imagination is the key.
Variations
- Make up new rules to fit with your situation.
- Use music and perform movements to the beat of the music.
- Pretend to be an animal or famous person.
Equipment: Object to Pass, Music
Group Size: 5+
Object: Pass the object to the beat of the music. Try not to be the one holding the object when the music stops.
Rules:
- This activity is played like "Musical Chairs."
- Students stand shoulder to shoulder in a circle.
- When the music begins, an object is passed or tossed around the circle to the beat of the music.
- When the music stops, the person holding the object goes to the center of the circle and does a selected non-locomotor or locomotor movement skill until the next round is over.
- Encourage the player in the middle to do the movement to the beat of the music.
- After a new round, the person in the middle rejoins the group and is replaced by the player that ended up with the passed object.
Variations:
- More than one object can be passed around the circle. This will send multiple players into the center to complete the motor skills.
- Use a basketball and the different basketball passes.
Equipment: Playground ball
Group size: 3+
Object: Keep the ball away from other players.
Rules:
- Designate a circle for the playing area.
- Decide the player or players that will be in the center.
- The remaining players stand on the outside of the circle.
- Throw or kick a ball back and forth between the players on the circle without letting the person in the middle get it.
- The players inside the circle try to get the ball.
- If a player in the middle gets the ball, he/she trades places with the player that threw or kicked the ball.
Variations:
- If you have a large group, use multiple balls.
- Play with a balloon or frisbee.
- Allow players to move within the designated area. Make sure to instruct everyone to watch for other players.
- Play using the different basketball passes.
- Play while dribbling a soccer ball with a defender.