This is a simple game for when you have a couple minutes of downtime or you need a quick partner activity. In this game, players have to play rock, paper, scissors until they can’t stay on their own two feet!
Rock Paper Scissors Stretch
1-2 Players
Grades 1-2
None
Less Than 5 minutes
Goal
The goal of Rock Paper Scissors Stretch is to try to keep your balance while taking steps backwards into the splits.
Before You Start
Make sure all participants know how to play Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Set Up
- Identify an open space where both participants will have room to stretch out their legs.
- If there are more than two participants, make sure everyone has a partner.
How to Play
- Start out by having both participants face each other and play a round of rock paper scissors.
- Each time a player wins a game of rock paper scissors they stay where they are.
- Each time a player loses a game of rock paper scissors they stretch out by one foot length.
- One way to do this is to simply take a step back with your back foot.
- To more precisely stretch out the same distance each time try this: swing your front foot behind your back foot and touch your toe to your heel. Leave that foot there and slide your new front foot up to your partner’s toes.
- Keep playing rock paper scissors and stretching out after each round until someone falls over, holds onto something for balance or can’t stretch any further.
Variations
- Play the game as a speed-icebreaker. Have two lines of players face each other, and all pairs play the full game. After the game is complete, give them a quick discussion or icebreaker question, and then have one line shift one person down.
- Play with three people at once. Stretch out for each person who beats you in rock paper scissors. For example if two people play paper and one plays rock the person who played rock would take two steps back.