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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
Age Group: 
Grade 6+
Length of Activity: 
10 minutes or more
Developmental Goal: 
To develop an understanding of the structure of a kickball field and develop hand-eye and eye-foot coordination.
Equipment: 
Cones
Equipment: 
Kickballs
Before You Start: 

Skills Practiced: Kicking and running the bases.

Equipment Needed: One kickball, 40 cones (depending on your kickball space).

  • Demonstrate running the bases and collecting the cones.
  • Ask the students to explain the game back to you.

Set Up: 
Lay down cones along each of the baselines (approximately 10 cones between home and first base, 10 between first and second base, etc).
How To Play: 
  • Divide players into two teams, kickers and outfielders. 
  • Coach is the full-time pitcher. 
  • The outfielders should spread out; their goal is to get the kicked ball back to the pitcher as quickly as possible. 
  • There are no outs and no foul balls. The kickers line up and kick one at a time. 
  • The pitcher rolls the ball to the kicker and they kick it as hard as they can. 
  • Then the kicker runs along the baseline picking up as many cones as possible before the ball is returned to the pitcher. 
  • Once the pitcher has the ball, he or she yells “STOP!” to the kicker, and the kicker stops running and collecting cones and returns to home base. 
  • The cones collected are placed back at home base in a pile. 
  • Then the next kicker kicks and runs along the baseline collecting cones etc. 
  • Kickers can run either direction on the baselines, but cannot run across the pitcher’s mound. 
  • The inning is over once all kickers have kicked or if all the cones have been collected. 
 
Variations: 
  • Kickers must run the bases in order 
  • Outfield must tag a base that the kicker is running towards before they yell “STOP!”
  • For larger and older classes, put out more cones so all students get a chance to kick. 
  • Allow tags and pegs to get outs for older classes if tagged cones cannot be placed in a pile.