Lucky Charms
SKILL FOCUS
Eye-hand coordination,
speed, agility, aim
GROUP SIZE
10+ children
EQUIPMENT
1 hula hoop, 50 bean bags, 4
milk crates
LOCATION
Inside or outside
SAFETY
Children need to be aware
of their surroundings so they
do not bump into one
another
PURPOSE
One Leprechaun tries to protect his gold, while teams of students try to steal it and return
back to their base without being tagged.
SETUP
Split the students into 4 even teams. Assign one child to be the Leprechaun. Place
a hula hoop in the middle of your room with 50 bean bags (which are gold) in it.
Place a milk crate for each team in their designated corner.
INSTRUCTIONS
The hula hoop in the middle of the gym is filled with bean bags which is gold.
On the command of ‘go’ one child at a time from each team will run towards the center of the gym where the gold is located. Their job is to take one piece of gold and return it to their milk crate.
The Leprechaun’s job is to try and tag the other children when they try to take gold. If the Leprechaun tags a kid without a piece of gold, that child must go back to their milk crate and do 10 jumping jacks and wait for their turn to come again.
If a child is tagged with a piece of gold in their hands, they must return the gold to the hula hoop and then go to their milk crate and do 10 jumping jacks before returning to the game. The first team to get 10 pieces of gold first wins.
MODIFICATIONS
To make it more difficult, add more bean bags, add more Leprechauns or add
more jumping jacks.
