Pizza Delivery | Playworks

To develop cooperation, teamwork and verbal communication.

Skills Practiced: Balance, agility, running, pacing and following directions.

Equipment Needed: Hula hoops and bean bags.

Divide the students into groups of four or five.
Give each group a hula hoop.
Model how to safely run with someone inside the hula hoop. Everyone facing forward while communicating and working as a team.

Designate a starting line and a delivery spot.

The object is to deliver all the bean bags (pizzas) to the delivery spot.
One student begins as the “pizza,” by standing in the middle of the hula hoop with a bean bag.
The other students begin as runners and hold onto the outside of the hula hoop.
The team runs the pizza to the delivery spot and places the bean bag on the ground before going back to the starting line.
Once they return from the first trip, the team switches the student that is the pizza, and makes another delivery run.
This continues until all students have had a chance to be the pizza or until all the bean bags have been delivered.

For more advanced groups challenge them by:

having them speed-walk backwards
making the “pizza” balance the bean bag on his/her head during any forward movement
having the “pizza” blindfolded so that the runners have to communicate to the “pizza” where they should be going.