Group games for school age children

In the pre-k class though, snow arrives in January via potato flakes. A tarp is suspended from the ceiling filled will potato flakes 25 pounds As the teacher is telling the snowman story, which is drawn on the chalkboard, the tarp is sliced at the appropriate time and it snows on the children.

Each child is dressed like a snowman by wearing white Glad garbage bags with the red draw string. They have a ball! Young kids Play just like hot potato only with an ice cube. When the music stops clap for the person with the ice.

To pass it quickly, you are bound. The game for you has quickly passed. Out goes Y-O-U! This is what we do with out kinder-program. The first one over the finish line wins…. Eggs real or plastic , spoons and an area to run are all you need for this game. Variations could relays and obstacle courses. To make it easy for younger kids, place something on the spoon to make the egg stick.

Play follow the leader with an Easter theme… Start hopping and then add other movements as well. Have the kids line up at the Start Line, squat down and grasp their ankles with each hand from behind. On GO, they waddle to a designated Finish Line. Gather a spoon for each child and plastic or hard boiled egg. Set up a course throughout the classroom or outdoors. Once a child is part way through the course allow another child to start.

Divide the children into two teams. Place each team on one side of a table opposite of each other. Place a colored cotton ball on the table and pretend it is a Easter egg. The object of the game is to blow the egg off the opposing teams side of table.

Players can not use their hands in any way. Use a piece of rope to hang a basket from the branch of a tree. Fill plastic Easter eggs with popcorn kernels for weight—and tape them shut. Have the children line up behind the basket and practice throwing eggs into the basket. You put your bunny ears in.

And you shake them all about. A traditional game of hot potato using a real potato. Play a CD of Irish music while the kids pass the potato around the circle. The player holding the potato when the music stops, will be in charge of the CD player for the next round. One child, who is the leprechaun , sits in the middle of the circle with their eyes closed. Somebody has it in their Pocket!

Guess who? Maybe you—Maybe a monkey from the zoo. Whether a right or wrong guess…the child with the shamrock is the next leprechaun. Paint an old tennis ball green. Set five pie tins numbered 1 to 5 on the floor. Give each child five bounces to land in the pie tins. Add up the total numbers to see who wins. The facilitator is all-powerful. You may at any time change the rules or boundaries for challenged players to help balance out the wide spectrum of abilities.

We want the tentative athlete and the super athlete to play together at the best of their abilities. Just make sure the children know and understand the rules before play begins.

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As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Read the full disclosure here. School Games for 4 to 8 Year Olds The following is a compilation of school games for 4 to 8 year olds. Have one child stand in each hoop. Variations: Have children walk like lions. Seals — Find a new iceberg. Frogs — Find a new lily pad.

They should make beeping and engine noises while doing so. They can pretend to be buses, cars, trucks or bikes — whatever they like. If they are yellow they must slow down. On green they move around normally. Need: Small bag and pre-made papers Make a scavenger hunt list with pictures you have drawn on a sheet of paper. Some ideas: A feather, small stone, acorn, various leaves in your area, small twig or stick, dead bug draw him with legs up pine cone, flower only if they can pick one , worm, pieces of grass, clover leaf …and any other ideas you can come up with.

Example: Pass it down the row with the right hand only Pass it up the row with left hand only Pass it down the row with both hands Pass it up the row with right hand over left shoulder Pass it down the row with left hand over right shoulder Pass it up the row under the right leg Pass it down the row under the left leg, and so on.

Have children come into the room and search for the teddy bear. The first person to find the bear then gets to go and hide it for the next round. Next, cut out objects from another sheet of the SAME wrapping paper; also cover these with contact paper.

To Play : The children match the cut-out pieces to the designs on the game board; they put the cut-out on the board when they find a match. Laminating the board and pieces will give you a game that lasts quite awhile! Example : If you have 20 children and hope to play 5 rounds, you would have 20 pieces of paper marked 1 to 20, and 5 prizes marked 4, 9, 12, 15 and Play: Scatter the papers around the room and the children dance and move about the room. When the music stops, the children must sit down on a piece of paper.

With a ta-daaaaa, announce the winning number. When the game is over—make sure that each child receives something! Your course could include the following challenges: Crawling under or over, Sliding, slithering, Stepping, Jumping, Hopping, Tightrope walking, Dodging or rolling, The possibilities are endless!

Materials: Cotton Balls Small empty film containers with lids A variety of liquid extracts Put one cotton ball in each empty film container and poke a hole through the lid of each tube so you can easily smell the scent inside. For each cotton ball choose one scent to be added to the cotton ball.

You can place numbered tags on the bottom of the tubes that correspond with a master list. Some ideas of scents to add to cotton: Coffee, lemon, garlic, peppermint, vanilla, orange, bacon, cherry, coconut, etc. The child that correctly identifies the most scents is the winner. Uncooked rice is also possible if purchased cheaply in bulk.

Have kids use pails, shovels, dump trucks, measuring spoons, cups and bowls. Take turns asking a child to find it. Go from warm, warmer, hot, hotter, cool, cold, colder, etc. Make sure all children get something. First practice with the children to ensure that they understand… Movements can be around head, behind back, between legs, up and down, turn around in a circle holding it, etc. Play some background music. Start the music again and the game resumes with a new variation. Variation: Ask them to be fishes, swimming in the sea.

When you stop the music tell them there is a big shark coming to eat them. You can try other ideas such as: Crocodiles, Pirates or Jellyfish coming to get them. The children would then be: Dolphins,Boats, Crabs, Mermaids, mermen, etc.

They could also be surfing! Directions: The children stand in a group facing the leader. Make sure each child has enough room to flap their arms in a flying motion. This game is played with a point system and elimination—but I like the idea of just playing for fun! Now spin them around a few times to throw them off a little bit. As you can imagine, this spawns a lot of giggling kids and a ton of excitement. You can make it competitive by timing each run to see who does it the fastest.

Just remember to keep all excitable kids safe to prevent any accidents. A cute and fun group game that will make you think back to the classic Tom and Jerry!

We recommend this game is played outdoors, although if you have a big enough room it can be played inside too. First of all you need to choose one kid to be the cat and another to be the mouse. Everyone else leftover must form a large circle linking hands together.

The cat and the mouse will remain outside the circle. The kids in the circle will start saying the following rhyme while moving clockwise or counter-clockwise:. Once the rhyme is finished, the kids in the circle will stop moving and the cat must begin to chase the mouse. Once the cat has caught the mouse, you can nominate another two kids to take a turn. Keeping the animal theme, Duck, Duck, Goose!

Is yet another classic that will wear kids out in no time. Get the kids to form a circle and sit down facing each other. This is where the high intensity fun begins!

This is an awesome fun group game for tons of reasons! Encourage them to take long pauses for dramatic effect to really ramp the fun up! A brilliant twist on an old classic, Freeze Tag functions a lot like normal tag, except when someone is tagged they have to freeze on the spot with their legs comfortably as wide apart as possible. They must remain frozen until another person playing the game crawls through their legs to unfreeze them.

This group game in particular teaches teamwork and cooperative play. Encourage all the kids to try and unfreeze as many of their fellow players as possible. You can easily incentivize this by giving points to whoever performs an unfreeze. At the end you can tally who has the most and crown them the best teammate!

We recommend this especially for shyer kids as a unique confidence booster. You will need a piece of paper divided into four sections, one that says Toy, Animal, Person and Game. Encourage the kids to draw their favorite selection of each in the appropriately labelled part of the paper. Each kid gets a colored dot, which is then lightly taped onto their forehead.

Each kid must then figure out what color dot is on their forehead, but obviously without asking any other kids for help. Depending on the number of kids, there will be only a few colored dots so a few kids will have the same color. This is a great team building game, because it forces kids to communicate non verbally. The first team that arrives together with the correct colored dots on their heads is the winner! You may have noticed a theme with our team building for kids activities: the fewer words spoken, the more effective the game.

And that is no different for Birthday line-up, in which kids are assembled into a group and must line up according to the order of their birthdays. To make the game more compelling, give kids 1 minute to line up the first time, then observe the final line-up and tell them which kids are out of place, then give them an additional minute to fix the positioning. The ideal playing area is a safe, enclosed outdoors area like a backyard or small park , in which there is a start area and finish area.

Then have another kid come over and act as a guide. This game can be mixed up a bit to include multiple players, making it trickier and more competitive. There are a number of awesome hula hoop games which really pushes kids to work together and build chemistry. Our favorite is the helium hoop game, in which kids must work together as a group in order to lower the hula hoop to the ground. Every kid must only use their index fingers to lower the hoop in unison to the ground.

Check out this great video below which shows how the finger tip helium hula hoop game is a great way to build team chemistry for kids:.

Raining outside? Stuck inside for whatever reason? No problem — there are plenty of awesome and fun indoor team building games for kids.