Children start with a beanbag balanced on their head. Children explore the area with as many types of movements as possible without the beanbag falling off.
Encourage children to repeat ideas shown from other children.
Ask children to balance the beanbag on different parts of the body and still travel around the area provided.
Encourage children to travel with high and low bodies.
On the coach’s whistle children have to stand still in a chosen sporting position. Example, children could stand in a karate position with the beanbag balanced on their head. Guess two or three then repeat the game.
Choose a child to guess some of the frozen sporting positions.
This time children travel around the area with the beanbag balanced on a body part. On the teacher’s whistle girls stay still making a bridge shape whilst the boys travel through the bridges with their beanbags balanced. Play for 1 minute then repeat the game with the boys making the bridges.
Make playing area bigger/smaller
Can hold onto the beanbag.