Movement skills/concepts

Skipping for speed and change of direction, skipping to a rhythm, and space awareness (body parts).

Set-up

• Rhythm instrument.
• Children are spread out within a marked circle in a hard or grass area.

Activity

Children skip within the boundaries of the circle and pretend everyone else in the circle is poison. If touched by another person, a child becomes poison and must skip with one hand behind their back. If touched a second time, the child puts the other hand behind their back. Begin by skipping slowly, then get progressively faster.

• coordinated skipping
• arms swinging freely
• rhythm

Variations

Modify area: Increase/decrease the circle size to make it easier or more difficult.

Add music: Skip to music.