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Group Size: 
Large group (10 or more)
Age Group: 
Pre K/K
Age Group: 
Grades 1-2
Age Group: 
Grades 3-5
Length of Activity: 
10 minutes or more
Developmental Goal: 
To develop teamwork, depth-perception, and eye-hand and eye-foot coordination.
Equipment: 
Bases
Equipment: 
Cones
Equipment: 
Hula Hoops
Equipment: 
Kickballs
Before You Start: 
  • On a traditional kickball field, place a large container that can hold many balls at the pitcher’s mound, a hula hoop also works well. 
  • Mark the outfield with numbers for half the group. The numbers should designate outfield play positions. Positions can be marked with cones (with numbers) or chalk.
  • Do not put positions farther into the outfield than you expect the students to kick.
  • Discuss the importance of staying at your position, calling your ball and, if necessary, passing the ball to teammates in the outfield. 
  • Also inform students to stay behind the pitcher while students are kicking.
  • Have everyone run the bases once all together in a line, calling out each base as they each it, to reinforce the base line and direction of running.
  • This is a good game to teach the basic concepts of fielding and passing while staying in a position zone as well as running the bases. With all this action, everyone is involved.

 

Set Up: 
Set up field with balls at pitcher's mound, bases and fielding positions marked.
How To Play: 
  • Divide the group into kicking and fielding teams and give each child on each team a number. The numbers denote the kicking order and their positions in the field. 
  • Kickers come up one at a time. As leader, you pitch to them. They kick the ball into the field and run around the bases continuously for a homerun.
  • Emphasize to the runners that they need to touch each base with their foot. 
  • While one kicker runs, the next kicker comes up to home plate and kicks. 
  • There are many balls so there can be many runners going around the bases at a time. 
  • The fielders retrieve the kicked balls, pass them infield and put them into the container, at the pitcher's mound. 
  • The fielders are trying to quickly pass the balls infield to keep the container full. 
  • Tell the fielders to get the balls that come toward their position and throw them inward to the nearest player until the ball gets back into the container.
  • Encourage students to pass the ball to each other rather than running it all the way back. 
  • When the whole kicking team has kicked and run the bases one time, the teams switch roles.

 

Variations: 
  • For older students who know the game of kickball, players can stop at any base and wait for the next kick before continuing to run. 
  • Allow more than one player can be on a base at a time. 
  • You could try allowing players to be tagged out in between bases.