Movement skills/concepts

Hopping for distance, static and dynamic balance, and landing safely.

Set-up

• Cones.
• Teams, each with the same number of children, are lined up behind a starting line in the grass or hard area, with one cone per team.

Activity

The first person in each team stands on the starting line and hops as far as they can.  A cone is placed where they first contact the ground with their hopping foot. The second person then takes off from the cone and hops as far as they can, and the cone is moved to where the second person landed. The relay continues until everyone in the team has had a go. The winning team is the team that has hopped the furthest.

• taking off while swinging arms forwards and upwards
• using the non-hopping leg to give momentum to hop
• landing safely with a bent leg

Variations

Hopping for speed: The first team finished with the coolest pose wins.