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Indoor Games

Pass the Orange

Skills: Gross Motor Skills, Cooperation Activity:

Gather two large, fresh oranges. l)ivide the class into two equally-sized teams. Have the students on each team stand in a straight linę. Givc lho flrst person on each team an orange. Explain that the team members are to pass the orange from one end of the linę to the other. The difficult part is that they cannot use their hands; they must pass the orange by holding il under their chins and passing it from one players neck to the next. If an orange should fali, the child who was trying to pass it must pick it up, place it under his chin and try again. The first team to get its orange to the end of the linę wins.

Pancake Flipping

Skills: Gross Motor Skills, Hand-to-Eye Coordi-! nation Activity:

j Gather a few pieces of corrugated cardboard and a few pie tins. Cut the cardboard into several 5" circles. Show the circles to the children and explain that the circles are pretend “pancakes."

Tell students that they are going to “flip’’ the pancakes. Allow each child to take a turn placing a pancake on a pic lin, tossing the pancake into the air and catching it again in the pie tin. ^rlbll ! students that, when pancakes are cookcd on a I griddie, they must be flipped to cook both sides.

See if students can make their cardboard pancakes Jflip in the air when they toss them.

Pretzel Twisting*

Skills: Gross Motor Skills, Crcativity, Flexibility Aetivity:

| Gather the children and ask Ihem to dcscidbe pretzels to you. Explain that you would like them to pretend to be pretzels. Have them sec how many ways they can position their bodies. Encourage the children to get as creative with their body shapos as possible.

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