Movement skills/concepts
Dribbling a ball with hands stationary or moving, space awareness, and evading a tagger.
Set-up
- Large round bouncy balls.
- Children are spread out in a defined grass or hard surface area with a safe line. All children have a ball except one child, who is the tyrannosaurus.
Activity
Children, move around the area, dribbling the ball for as long as possible. If a child loses control of the ball, they call, ‘Tyrannosaurus’. All then run holding their ball and trying to cross the safety line before being tagged by the tyrannosaurus. Choose a new tyrannosaurus and the game continues.
- relaxed dribbling
- head up looking around
- not touching others
Variations
Vary action of tyrannosaurus: The tyrannosaurus tries to steal the ball from dribblers while they are dribbling.
Vary action of dribblers: On the call of ‘Tyrannosaurus’, dribblers continue to dribble the ball while evading the tyrannosaurus.
