Cooling down games for kids




















Continue this movement while alternating feet, swinging arms in a strolling movement. Action Stories Tell a story with actions that the children can do. Here are some theme suggestions: Rainstorm coming and then leaving, with fingers and hands tapping the floor in beat to the intensity of the rain.

Walk through the forest, listening to the birds and the wind in the trees. Visit to a planet in outer space, exploring new terrain. Strolling on the Spot Begin by standing on the spot.

Stroll one step forward, then one step back, one step forward, then one step back gently swinging arms by sides. Do not raise arms above waist. Bubble Gum Game Children pretend to be a piece of bubble gum that is being chewed. Body Shake Gently shake one arm, the other, both.

Shake one leg, the other, both, head, hips, whole body. Suffixes and Prefixes. Synonyms and Antonyms. Writing Non Fiction. Writing Persuasive Writing. Cool Down Ideas. Display Tips and Resources. Elements of Art.

Maps and Atlases. Memory Time Fillers. Odd and Even. Problem Solving. Reading Poetry. Spanish Food and Drink. Speaking and Listening. Sports Day. Words linked to Speech. Writing Poetry. Writing Recounts. Finish the Picture. Finishing Work. Human Biology. Puzzle Time Fillers. Reflecting on Reading. Spanish Time. The Internet. Writing Reports. All Four Operations. Gaining Attention.

Learning from and about Artists. Mass and Weight. Natural Disasters. Spanish Weather. Word Processing. Managing Breaks. Spanish Animals. Moving Around. Van Gogh. Ratio and Proportion. School Club Resources. World War 1.

Transition Activities. World War 2. Picture Puzzles. Working with Parents. Other Topics. Sort by Post date Random Value Total views. Order Asc Desc. Home Subjects PE. Newest first Highest rated first Most popular first Random. Late for School! A fun warm up activity which involves pretending to get ready for school! Includes a related cool-down activity too. If you Wink Murder is a favourite among my students.

This classic game is great for concentration when the class are overly energised. Better yet, it can It is safe to play while social distancing and virtually Note: With younger children , you may want to use a cocktail straw instead of the toothpick to avoid any possible injuries during all the excitement.

You need an empty toilet paper or paper towel tube for each child and a marble or small bouncing ball for each. Create a finish line with some masking tape on the floor or table, and position the kids on the other end with their cardboard tubes and marbles.

Send the marble or ball through the tube launcher and see who crosses the finish line first. Get a cup filled with water. Put a napkin over the cup. Place a rubber band around the cup to hold the napkin. Put a penny in the middle of the napkin. Everyone looks at the same photograph for 30 seconds. Remove the photo and write down as much as you can remember about it. The person with the longest list of items that are really in the photo wins!

Get out a deck of cards or several and use them to build a tower. Lean one card against another, creating a triangle with the table top or floor. Create a second triangle a couple inches to the left or right of your first one, and connect the two with a card laying flat over top.

See how tall you can make your tower. This can be done as an individual. Give everyone a pencil and paper and describe an object for them to draw. They are to follow what YOU are drawing. Required: Container pkgs. Players: Small to large groups. Place a piece of chocolate candy in your mouth— and see how long it takes to melt! No sucking and chewing it!

The players start counting substituting buzz for the number seven and multiples of seven. If a player makes a mistake he must drop out or the whole group must start again. Table Game First, cut three or four plastic straws into pieces about an inch long and put the pieces in a pile in the middle of a table. Put a cup in front of each player. Now to make your claws, cut a straw in half. Tape one half to your first finger and other half to your thumb.

When each player has his claws on, the game can begin. At the count of three everyone starts to pick up straws. When all the straws are gone, the one with the most in his cup is the winner. Partners shake their fists three times—and then show their chosen motion on the count of three. Winning hands are decided as follows: Rock dulls scissors… Scissors cuts paper… Paper covers rock.

Play five or seven times…and see who has the most wins. The first one to the end of the track and back wins. The contestant who holds the note the longest wins. HIGH DIVE: Each player stands on a chair or faces the chair back-rest and then kneels chair seat with ten clothes pins and drops them into an empty bottle.

The player that gets the most wins. All children playing— sit at a table or desk with their heads down. They cover their eyes and stick up one thumb. Seven children who have been chosen— walk around the tables or desks. They then have to guess who was the one who touched their thumb. Pregame preparation: First, fold a paper football.

Then, grab a friend and a table! Decide how many points you want to play 35 is a good goal , then flip a coin. Next, the flicker sets the football flat in front of him and flicks it with his finger toward his opponent. The receiving player then has four flicks — or downs — to slide the ball so that part of it, even a fraction, overhangs the table edge.

If the football falls off the table, the defending player takes possession. If it stops short of the end zone on the 4th flick, the defense takes over where the ball came to rest. Most people know how to play the traditional version of Hangman. Play it like 20 Questions. Play it in Teams using a large whiteboard or black board…Check out some more fun whiteboard games.

You may find the older kids also like this version!!! Adapt tic tac toe to play at different seasons and holidays. Take a large piece of poster board and draw the tic tac toe lines on it and laminate if possible. Example: for Halloween cut-out pumpkin and ghosts or witch hat shapes; then simply play tic tac toe. For fall cut out two different types of leaves.

For winter.. You can also make your TicTac Toe boards with more spaces to make the game more challenging! Instead of two lines each way—try three, four or more! Play the game as usual. Mancala is a game that has been around for centuries. Forms of this game were played in ancient Africa and Asia. There are many different names, boards and rules of play for Mancala. Children in Africa would play by scooping holes in the dirt to create a game board. This version is one that you can make with a Styrofoam egg carton, two applesauce or pudding cups and dried beans.

Of course, you can use anything for game pieces, beads, pennies, or anything small and easy to scoop! You will need 48 dried beans to start the game — 4 in each cup. Two people play at a time. SET UP : Place the board between the two players so that the long sides face the players- and the two applesauce cups Mancala cups are on the right and left.

You will have six cups of beans facing each player. Place 4 beans in each cup. This cup is where they put the beans they collect. In his or her turn, they pick up all of the beans from one cup on their side of the board- Then — going clockwise- they place one bean at a time in each cup- including their Mancala collection cup until they run out of beans.



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