Movement skills/concepts

Dodging and faking to avoid a chaser, space awareness, changing direction, and speed.

Set-up

• Bands/bibs.
• Defined grass or hard area, approximately 10 meters square. Groups of six: two chasers with a band/bib each, and four runners.

Activity

Chasers have 1 minute to catch all the runners. If tagged, a runner has to freeze and count to 10 out loud before starting to run again. The object is for the chasers to have all the runners frozen at the same time.

Can you see …?

• runners: plant and go
• chasers: watching hips

Variations

Vary locomotor skill: For example, play by walking, leaping, or crawling.

Fitness tag: When tagged, instead of freezing, runners do a chosen exercise, (e.g. five push-ups or sit-ups).