
Organisation: 30 x 30 yard Box with 4 colour cones in corners of area.How to Play: Pupils move around according to Teachers instructions e.g. Skipping, Hopping, Side-stepping, Crawling, Moving Like an Animal: (Bird, Kangaroo, Shark etc. when Teacher calls a colour the students must instantly react and run to that colour cone(Island).Cross-Curricula Links: To make it interesting you can Call Blue area (Ocean), Green (Jungle), Red (Desert), White (Artic). And get them to name animals in those geographical areas.
This practice has no coaching points
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