P.e warm up games for ks1

Of all the fun games for warming up before PE class, Dance Party is the most fun. All you will need is your phone with downloaded songs and a set of WiFi speakers.

Start by having each child vote for the songs that they want to dance to. Next, download the three most popular songs in the class onto your phone.

When you play a song, allow the students to dance however they would like. You should encourage them to get as crazy as possible. For most kids, this will be their favorite time of the day. This is a really fun warm-up game that your students will enjoy. You should start by separating the class into two sections. The first group will be the alligators and the second group will be the runners. The runners will be the alligators and vice versa in the next round. To start the game, have the runners start at one end of the gym.

Have the alligators on their stomachs in the middle of the gym. They will need to run past the alligators in the middle of the gym who will try to reach out and touch the runners. Any runner who gets caught by an alligator should sit on the floor. The runners who make it to the other end of the gym without getting caught by an alligator are the winners.

After round one, have the students switch roles for round two. Amoeba Tag is a game that most kids love. It is very easy to play and it involves running, stopping, and changing directions.

Each of these is great warm-up exercises. Each student that the amoeba tags must hold hands with one of the amoebae and they will all need to run together to tag the other students. The game is over when there are no free students left. For older children, you can add one additional rule. The amoeba can split up but only in pairs of two.

This will make it easier for the amoeba to catch the students as they spread out. This is a great warm-up exercise for kids of all ages. Start by having the students stand in a circle. Choose one leader and have them go to the middle of the circle. It is up to the leader to do one exercise and the rest of the class will follow. The exercise can be anything from jumping jacks to sit-ups. Allow the kids to do the exercise to 20 to 30 seconds and blow the whistle.

The leader will then choose a new leader to come up with their own exercise for the class to do. You can play this game until every student has had a chance to be the leader. Crab Races are a lot of fun and your students get to be crabs. To get into the crab position, have your students lie on their backs. They should then put their feet on the floor and their hands under their backs to lift themselves up like little crabs.

When all of the students are in their crab positions, start the race. The first little crab to get to the finish line is the winner. Jumping rope is a great cardio exercise. According to the American Heart Association, light cardio is important before any workout. Jumping rope at a slow pace is a great way to get the heart pumping.

During the warm-up session, students can start slow and slowly increase their speed according to your instructions. According to the CDC, physical education in school is incredibly important.

Not only does it teach students the importance of physical fitness, it also helps improve their balance, coordination, and their stamina. Put beanbags in the middle of the square. Only one team member can run at a time. It is a relay to see who can collect the most beanbags. You can create a value for the beanbags depending on what they are learning in numeracy.

You can also add a value to specific coloured beanbags. Create a square area with a jail in the middle. Using a variety of movements chosen by the teacher, the robbers will avoid the police. If a robber is caught they must complete a balance in jail until they are freed by another robber. Keeping to the original format, divide your class into two teams with each team going to opposite sides of the area.

Before the game starts, each team will choose a doctor which they keep secret. Play the game as normal dodgeball with teams throwing one or more soft balls at the legs of the opposing team. Eliminate the other team by getting all its players out. When someone is hit below the knee, they must sit. The secret Doctor can touch the injured and bring them back into play. To check out all our dodgeball variations, click here. Place different coloured cones in a pattern green, red, blue, yellow, white, green, red, blue etc… in the shape of a square.

This is a brilliant activity for agility, moving in different directions, acceleration, spatial awareness and more…. This is a game that you can modify depending on which movements you are teaching. Set out an area that the children can move around in. Inform the children that each colour of cone represents a different movement….

This is a playground favourite. The children must stay away from the chaser. If a child is caught they are stuck in the mud until they are freed by another child. To make the game harder, you could create four zones and close of zones accordingly. The children will explore personal space in this game.

Divide the area into four zones and as time goes by you can gradually remove a zone. You can remove a zone by placing a large red cone in that area. The children must react to the constant change of boundaries.