Play continues until only one student is left. If a student fails to make a catch, he is out. Start throwing them toward the students, who are spread out around you. This PE game includes the teacher! Stand on a stool and have a bunch of cones or balls handy. Other players can free the “bananas” by peeling them, which means they pull down one arm and then the other arm. When they tag another student, he turns into a banana and must put both arms straight up above his head. Spread your students around the play area and choose two kids to be “it.” They are the monkeys. The objective is to launch the ball off the parachute and over the heads of the opposing team, which scores one point. Put a beach ball in the middle of the parachute. One half of the parachute is team A while the other half is team B. Have your students arrange themselves around a parachute. Any player who fits the category you call out has to run under the parachute and switch places with someone else. Call out things like colors the students are wearing or birthday months.
Parachute changeĪrrange your students around a large parachute. The last player to be frozen gets to be “it” on the next round. However, once a student is tagged, they are “frozen” until another player tags them. This is another tag game that starts out like traditional tag. As they get further apart, the game gets more challenging. Once the other person catches the hula hoop, they must take a large step backward and continue playing. Have them stand about three feet apart and roll a hula hoop to each other. This game follows the rules of traditional soccer, but players crab walk instead of regular running. Players can rejoin the game when another player crawls under their bridge, which frees them. This game starts as regular tag, but each time a student is tagged he must kneel and form a bridge. Repeat until the winning player reaches the end of the field or until the whole class finishes.
Every time you yell, “jump,” students jump as far as they can.
This is another racing game that starts with lining your students up on one end of the playing field. Call out an animal, such as a cheetah or a frog, and students have to race to the other end, running like that animal. Line your PE class up at one end of the gym or playing field for this game. If a student doesn’t clap or drop the ball, they are out. Players must clap before they catch the ball. Give one player the ball and have them get ready to toss it. Clap and catchĪrrange your class into a large circle. Give increasingly hard challenges as you go, such as on the shoulder or the thumb. See how long the students can balance before they move off their bean bag falls. Ask the students to balance their bean bags on various parts of their body, such as their foot or knee. This is kind of like blob tag, but instead of forming a blob, students must link arms to form a chain. Blob tagĬhoose one child to be “it.” As that child tags other children, they link arms or hold hands to create a “blob.” The game continues until the blob has tagged everyone in the game. With a few PE staples, such as foam balls, hula hoops, and bean bags, your students will be having fun in no time! Here are 50 PE games to get you started. While playing the same old games over and over again can get a bit boring, incorporating a wide variety of games into your lesson plans helps keep PE fun and engaging. An essential part of the school day, PE teaches kids the life skill of getting regular exercise. Kids naturally love PE because it’s a time to be active and play fun games.