Age: Grades 3-5

kids running outside
kids running outside

  • 6-10 Players

  • Grades 1-2

  • Chalk

  • 5-10 Minutes

  1. Autonomous/Self-access Games
  2. Indoor Game
  3. Recess Games
  4. Rotational Games
  5. Tag Games

Scramble ›

This is a quick paced, rotational game. In this game, players have to stay on the lines of a foursquare court and avoid getting tagged by the Chef!

  • Any Size

  • Grades 1-2

  • No equipment needed

  • 10 minutes or more

  1. Cooperative Games

The Maze Game ›

  • Large Group (10 and up)

  • Grades 1-2

  • Balls

  • 10 minutes or more

  1. Ball Games
  2. Readiness Games

Wide Goal Soccer ›

  • Large Group (10 and up)

  • Grades 3-5

  • Cones

  • 10 minutes or more

  1. Tag Games

Fox Hunt/Squirrel Scramble ›

  • Any Size

  • Grades 1-2

  • None

  1. Icebreaker
  2. Indoor Game

Movement Name Game ›

  • Large Group (10 and up)

  • Grades 3-5

  • None

  • Less Than 10 minutes

  1. Icebreaker
  2. Indoor Game

This is My Nose ›

This game of concentration will stump your students and keep them wanting more. In this game, students begin in a circle with one student leader in the middle. The student…

  • Small Group (1-10)

  • Grades 1-2

  • Balls

  1. Ball Games
  2. Recess Games

Basketball ‘Playworks’ ›

  • Large Group (10 and up)

  • Grades 3-5

  • None

  • 10 minutes or more

  1. Tag Games

Fruit Basket ›

  • Any Size

  • Grades 3-5

  • None

  • Less Than 10 minutes

  1. Icebreaker
  2. Indoor Game
  3. Tag Games

Name Touch ›

Knowing each other’s names builds community, and what better way to memorize names than through a tag game? In this fast-paced game, students form a circle with one student leader…