Touchdown Relay

SKILL FOCUS

Gross Motor, Endurance

GROUP SIZE

8+

EQUIPMENT

2 footballs, 2 cones, floor tape

SETUP

Set up each team in a traditional relay race line. Place 2 cones near the opposite end of the room, mark the start line with floor tape and give the first child in each line a football.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. On the instructor’s signal, the first kid in line must run with the football to the cone across from them.

2. Once they get to the cone, they must run around it and come back to the start line.

3. As they get back to the start line, they must hand off the football to the next child who follows the same process.

4. The first team to finish the race wins.

Make it Easier: 

Decrease the distance the children must run

Make it Harder:

Increase the distance the children must run or ask the children to pass the ball back to the next child in line from a specific distance

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