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Group Size: 
Small Group (1-10)
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 practice helping others.
Before You Start: 

Skills Practiced: Balance and movement.

 
Equipment Needed: Bean bags for every student.
 
  • Have the whole group stand in a circle.
  • Announce the boundaries and any safety issues.
  • Demonstrate how to balance a bean bag on one’s head. 
  • Provide every student a bean bag and a chance to practice balancing on her or his head.
 
How To Play: 
  • Every student must balance a bean bag on her or his head.
  • The game begins with the leader announcing a movement, such as walk, hop or skip. 
  • Everyone must move around the space doing the indicated movement while still balancing the bean bag on his or her head.
  • If a student’s bean bag falls from her or his head, the student must let it drop to the ground and freeze their body.
  • Other students may pick up bean bags and hand them to the frozen students in order for them to return to the game.
 
Variations: 
  • Pre K-2nd students: Allow them to pick up their own bean bags in order to return to the game or allow unfrozen students to pick up the frozen students’ bean bags while holding their own.