Top Games: Physical Activity: The Safe House

Game 1: The safe house

1. You need some play huts as shown.
2. Children line up on one end of the gym and the play huts, the safe houses, on the opposite end.
3. The noodle monster tries to tag children who try to get into the safe house without getting tagged.
4. Obviously, you want to give children some openings to be able to run to the safe house without getting tagged too often.
5. Keep in mind that only about max 3 children fit into one hut.
6. Alternate groups if you have many children in your class.

Tips

1. We use pop-up soccer goals as extra huts for more children or have children run into different rooms if available.
2. Quickly switch to each child being the noodle monster for more fun.
   

Goals

Main focus: A great game to get children physically very active.
In addition: Orientation is greatly improved and very complex for young children, they have to keep track of a free target hut to run into, and avoid the monster and other children as well to not collide.

Story

1. Run back inside from a dangerous and ugly monster.
   

Progressions

1. The further away you place the play huts the more physical activity you add.
2. Use fewer play huts,
3. Have 2 monsters
4. Or use longer noodles to increase the challenge.