Pass the Baton

SKILL FOCUS

Strength, Endurance, Gross Motor

GROUP SIZE

8+

EQUIPMENT

Hula hoops, batons

SETUP

Space out hula hoops throughout your room. Have 2 fewer hula hoops than children. Give the 2 children without the hula hoop a baton.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Space out the children all over your room.

2. All the children with a hula hoop must stand inside the hula hoop.

3. Two children will not be in a hula hoop, they will each hold a baton.

4. When the music starts, the 2 children with the batons will sprint to a kid in a hula hoop and give them their baton.

5. As soon as this happens, they switch spots, and the new child with the baton will now run to a different child in a hoop and give them the baton.

6. This pattern will continue until the song that you are playing ends.

7. In most cases, children will not be in a hoop too long as a baton will eventually kick them out of their hoop.

Make it Easier: 

Space the hula hoops closer together and only have 1 child with a baton.

Make it Harder:

Use alternate locomotors like crab walks or bear crawls

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