Move Your Feet
Pre K/K
Balls
Development Goal
To develop hand-eye and eye-foot coordination
Before You Start
- Review the boundaries of the game.
- Demonstrate how taggers use the ball: throw the ball low so that it hits the runner on the shoe.
- Choose quiet listeners to be taggers.
- Switch taggers every few minutes.
- Explain where runners go if the ball hits their foot (to a designated space to do a certain number of jumping jacks, toe touches, or an exercise of your choice)
- Remind taggers that after they throw the ball they must go get it to throw again.
- Reinforce that runners do not want to be touched by the ball; if a ball rolls by them they cannot kick it nor can they pick it up!
Set Up
Mark off a large rectangular area in which all of the students in your group may run safely.
How to Play
- When the game begins, taggers try to throw the ball at the runners’ feet.
- Both taggers and runners may move anywhere within the boundaries.
- The ball may come from any side so runners must be very alert!
Variations
- Increase the number of balls and taggers (makes the game more difficult)
- Tell taggers that they must roll the ball at the runners’ feet (makes the game easier to play for kindergarteners)
Alternate Names: Foot Tag