Elementary

Grades 1-3 Introductory Activity – Follow the Path Materials: tape, pompoms, straws (one per child) Make several tape lines of several feet across the game area. If you have colored tape, create some lines that cross one another. Give each child a straw. Place a group of kids at each end of each tape line. […]

Grades 1-3 Introductory Activity – Listen and Move No materials needed Stand at one end of the game area. Lead the kids to line up shoulder to shoulder, facing you, on the other end of the game area. Tell kids to listen to what you say. When you say “Forward,” they move toward you. When […]

Grades 1-3 Game – Jump to Answer Materials: tape line in the middle of the game area Lead kids to line up on the tape line, facing you. Make a statement related to travel: “I have been to Alaska.” Kids jump left off of the line if the statement is true about them and right […]

Grades 1-3 Game – Spell of Wind Materials: plastic cups, table tennis balls, thin-line permanent marker, straws (one per kid) Cut 3 cups in half. Write one of these letters on each cup half: P, e, t, e, r. (You’ll have one blank half.) Lay the cups, cut side down, on the floor. Write the letters […]

Grades 1-3 Introductory Activity – Keep It Up Materials: beach balls or other inflated balls Toss a beach ball to the group of kids. Challenge them to keep batting the ball up in the air and keep it aloft as long as they can. After a minute or so, add another ball. Say: “I saw […]

Grades 1-3 Introductory Activity – Name Clap No materials needed Guide kids to stand in a circle. Ask each kid to say his name, clapping the syllables as he says it. (For example, “My name is Joseph” with two claps.) After all kids have clapped their names, say: “If your name is (clap, clap), move turn […]