Let the Games Begin! It may be a year until the next Olympic games, but the fever continues on . This is a set of games that can be played in a classroom gym, or outside. It involves fun with little unhealthy competition. Let the games begin! Balloon Ball Throw Materials: Balloon or ball Masking tape Ruler Stand on the tape line on the floor. Throw one balloon or ball as far as you can. Measure the distance with a ruler the distance your balloon or ball traveled with a ruler. Hip Hop High Materials: Masking tape Ruler Stand next to a wall. Stretch out your arm upward, while keeping both feet flat on the ground. Mark the highest point you can reach with a piece of masking tape at which point you can reach. Jump as high as you can and make another masking tape mark on the wall. Measure the distance between the two tape marks. Wide Width Materials: Masking tape Ruler Stand with both feet together. Place one foot on a starting tape mark. Take a giant step with one foot to the side. Mark the inside spot where your stepping foot lands. Measure the width of your step. Lengthy Long Jump Materials: Masking tape Ruler Put both feet on the starting line on the floor. Take one giant step with both feet forward. Mark the length of your giant step. Frisbee Fro Materials: Masking tape Ruler Frisbee or paper plate Throw a Frisbee or paper plate from a marked line. Find the distance that the Frisbee or paper plate traveled with a ruler. Try to see what happens when you close your eyes. Compare the distances with the eye open and closed with one another. Pool Doodles Throw a section of a pool noodle as far as you can using an overhead motion. Find the distance where you threw the noodle and the ending point that the noodle landed. Stomper Cloppers Materials: Stompers Tape Cone Take two sturdy cups and add string to them. Have two students stand on top of them and walk back and forth from one point to another and back. The player that finishes first wins. Hippity Hop Hooray! Materials: Tape Corners Hippity Hops Take two Hippity hops and race two people from one point to another and see which person comes back first. The first one back wins! Baton Battle Materials: Tape Cones Batons Take two batons and have students race from one point to another and back. The team that comes back first with the baton wins! Try various movements that do not involve running, such as hopping, tiptoeing, jumping, and skipping. Spoon Spectacular Materials: Two spoons Two balls Two cones Masking tape Students will get into two equal lines. The first person in each line will receive a spoon and a ball. The ball is placed in the spoon, and the first person runs down and around the cone. When he/ she returns to the line, they will give it to the next person who will do the same thing. If the ball is dropped, the student must stop, and place the ball back on the spoon before continuing. The student who comes back with the spoon and ball intact wins. Materials: Two spoons Two balls Two cones Masking tape Hockey Hotspot Materials: Two Hockey Sticks Two cones Bag of lightweight balls Students line up in two teams with the first person from each team standing on a designated starting place. Give these two students a hockey stick and a ball. On the signal to begin, these students will use the hockey stick to move the ball around the cone, and back to the start. Then they will hand their hockey stick to the next player in line. This will continue until all team members have had a turn. The team that finishes first wins! Light your World Materials: Masking Tape Pool Noodles Students line up in two teams with the first person from each team standing inside a starting hoop. Give these two students a pool noodle. On the signal to begin, the two students will run to the cone and run back. They will hand the torch noodle to the next student in line, who will then run to the cone and back. This will continue until all team members have had a turn. References: AIMS Olympic Site http://www.aimsedu.org/activities/cOlympics/colympics.pdf Wacky Olympics http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=TwoTwo47