| Balloons - All
children love games with balloons |
| Balloon Basketball - Leaders holds arms
out for goals |
| Balloon Volleyball |
| Balloon Batting - Keep it up in the air,
don't let touch the floor |
| Balloon Bust, Try stomping a balloon |
| Tie a balloon to a string and attach to
the clubbers ankle and let them jump over it |
| Balloon Drop - Hold between leg and walk
like Cubbie to a small garbage can or bucket-straddle it and drop
balloon on the can or bucket |
| Cubbie Bear Balloon Bust-Have small
balloons attached to a piece of cardboard Cubbie, let children choose a
color or you name a color to bust-preferably their color team color |
| Obstacle courses |
| Hoops in a circle |
| Hoops in a line, hop in and hop out |
| Through Hoops, have leaders hold up |
| Tunnels, have them crawl through then
run to the next tunnel |
| Set up anything to make an obstacle
course |
| Have the children run in and around game
pins or bowling pins |
| Parachutes |
| Have balloons in the middle, have
children raise up slowly (say up) then down (say down). |
| Have children go in one direction, then
go back the other way |
| Frisbees |
| Have cloth Frisbees or foam Frisbees for
each child |
| They can throw toward one way and let
them come back to them |
| Free play, throw them up in the air-see
how high they will go |
| Plastic Colored
Balls |
| Kick balls all around the floor (like
the one that goes in tunnel house)
|
| Throw them in buckets like beanbags |
| Put these in the parachute then chase
when all are flipped out |
| Bowling Games |
| Buy a plastic bowling set or two let the
children take turns bowling
|
| Have the children try to knock over a
certain color pin
|
| Balls |
| Play any game you wish. |
| Ball Toss-Throw a softball or foam ball
into a barrel |
| Toss a football through floating ring (innertube,
hang down from the ceiling) |
| Obey |
| Cubbies Says |
| Mother May I |
| Hokey Pokey (Jesus Style) |
| Follow the Leader |
| Forward Rolls (Flips) |
| Choo-Choo Train |
| Rope |
| Tug A War |
| High Water-Cubbies jump over, raise a
little each time |
| Sneaky Snake-Wiggle rope as Cubbies jump
over the rope |
| Circle Games |
| Ring Around the Roses |
| Run around the circle (3 to 5 laps) |
| Skip, Hop, or bounce the ball around the
circle |
| Sack Race |
| One legged Sack or Pillowcase Race |
| Two legged Race-Hop in a Sack or
Pillowcase to the other side |
| Crawls |
| Cubbie Crawl - 1/2 of Cubbies on one
side, ½ on the other side. Yell GO and the Cubbies are to race to the
other side on all fours |
| Crawl over Noodle or crawl under after
raising a little at a time |
| Other Ideas |
| Hot potato |
| Doggy-Doggy Where is Your Bone |
| Duck Duck Goose |
| Red Rover, Red Rover-We dare ________
over |
| Stick Horse Race or Gallop (can be made
out of a mop) |
| Musical Chairs |
| Spin the Cubbie |
| Shoe Fly - Cubbies take off shoes and
place in a pile. Have 4 clubbers one opposite of each other around the
pile, for one minute let the children try to find their shoes |
| Egg Toss -
Egg Carton - Color holes AWANA colors, use
Ping-Pong balls. Throw Ping-Pong ball in the color you call out. Helps
them learn their colors |
Feed Cubbie Bear
Equipment: Piece of plywood or
cardboard on which Cubbie Bear is painted and mouth is open for beanbag
or small ball.
Life Size Cubbie on cardboard or shower curtain has children stick
something on Cubbie (blindfolded). |
How About A Cubbies Band: Rhythm Band
Make: Cymbals
Drums (Oatmeal Box)
Sticks
Or buy a kit at the Dollar Tree
Noisemakers---- Trade out so that all have something different |
| Exercises |
| Stretching arms out |
| Rolling Neck |
| Jumping Jacks |
| Push-ups (our really love to do these) |
| Touch Toes |
| Any things to get them warmed up and
ready to go... |
