Top Games: Rhythm: Two in One Card Box

Game 1: Two-in-One Card Box

1. Split up children into pairs or 2 teams.
2. The more cardboxes you have the better, the more children are active simultaneously.
3. Define a starting and finish line and now have the children in each pair put one foot inside the card box each.
4. On command, each team now crosses your playing field and comes back together, being locked together inside the card box with one foot each.
5. none of the children is allowed to step outside the card box when changing direction at the end of the gym.

Tips

1. We put packing tape around the outside of the card boxes and at the bottom to keep them from breaking.
2. The smoother the floor the better but it works on carpet as well as you can see here.
3. Make sure children switch sides after each round to once have their left leg inside the card box and their right leg.
4. Also, try it with a variety of different-sized boxes. A very large one is a lot of fun.
    

Goals

Main focus:  Rhythm and collaboration. Children ideally communicate with each other on when to step. Of course, you want them to figure that out on their own and not tell them.
In addition: Physicality, especially endurance.

Story

1. 2 Prisoners, chained together, are trying to escape as a pair.
    

Progressions

1. The larger the box or
2. The longer the path, the more you increase the challenge.