Ball Games
Oliver-Oliver-Oliver Twist
Oliver-Oliver-Oliver Twist
Bet you a dollar you can’t do this:
Number one- touch your tongue
Number two-touch your shoe
Number three- touch your knee
Number four-touch the floor
Number five- be alive
Number six-pick up sticks
Number seven-jump to heaven
Number eight-shut the gate
Number nine-walk the line
Number ten-start again
As you bounce the ball carry out each action
Piggy in the middle
Two players face each other, third player stands in the middle and tries to intercept the ball as it is thrown between the two. If successful swop with the person who threw the ball.
Up and Over
Children stand in a line about 1 metre apart. The first in line starts with the ball and passes it over their head to the next one in line. They then pass the ball through their legs to the next and so on until the ball reaches the last in line. They receive the ball and run to the front of the line, everyone shuffles back a little and starts the sequence again always passing first over the head. This can be played as an activity to improve ball handling with a small group of children before progressing to competitions against other lines of children.
Football Crazy
A player with a ball starts from each corner of a marked out square.
On command all four dribble their balls into the area and have to maintain possession whilst trying to kick other balls out of the area.
The winner is the one who remains left in possession at the end.
Catch the Ball
Pupils stand in a circle and pass a ball around. If the ball is dropped, a physical task (e.g 10 star jumps) must be done by that pupil in the middle of the circle whilst the ball continues to go round the circle
Catch and Head
One child stands in the middle of a circle with a soft ball. They throw the ball to one of the other children in the circle and shout out the instruction of head or catch.
The receiver must follow out the instruction, if they cannot then they have to sit down. The winner is the last one remaining.
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