Movement skills/concepts
Skipping walking or jumping, and relationships (with others).
Set-up
Hoops, background music.
In a defined hard area, children in pairs stand inside a hoop, holding it at waist height.
Activity
Each pair skips around the area to the music, staying inside the hoop while moving in the same direction and at the same pace. When the music stops, each pair joins another pair by stacking the hoops together and getting inside them. Groups continue to combine with others in this way until as many children as possible are inside the stacked hoops.
Variation
Modify the use of hoops: Hoops are stationary on the floor and the children skip around and jump inside when the music stops. One hoop is removed each time the music stops. Children work together to ensure that everyone (or some part of everyone) becomes part of the remaining hoop.
Vary locomotor skills: Try walking or jumping.
