Top Games: Hide Your Hat

Game 1: Hide your Hat

1. Each child holds a disc cone of a different color and tries to hide it behind his or her back.
2. The coach and later one of the children call out a color he wants and try to peek behind the children's backs to see who has that color.
3. All remaining children constantly move and try to hide their disc cones behind their backs to keep the coach from seeing their color.

Tips

1. A smaller playing field is preferred for this game as children will have to pivot and change directions more frequently to hide their hats, compared to a larger field where they can just move away from the coach.
2. And of course, you can also substitute the disc cones with any other colored items, or sheets of paper work just as well.
    
3. Add a second person to look for the hats to add an even greater tactical challenge for children to be able to hide the hat, having to find the most favorable path to move and be able to hide the hat.
    

Goals

Main focus: Reaction, to quickly change direction to always be able to hide the hat.
In addition: Physicality, speed, endurance, and balance as there will be lots of backward movement.
Orientation, like in all tag games.

Story

1. One of the children took away the coach's hat, and he needs to find it quickly as the sun is burning like crazy on his bold head.
    

Progressions

1. The more children participate, the greater the challenge.