In honor of Orchard Gardens Pilot School in Playworks Metro Boston experience, the Game of the Week is Orchard Gardens’ Playworks After School Program’s very own game–Chewbacca–from the Invent-A-Game Showcase.
Before You Start:
- Inform players:
- They must keep at least one foot on their goal line or they must go to the end of the line.
- They may only hit the ball with their hands.
- The ball must remain on the ground.
Set Up:
Place four cones in a square formation approximately the size of a four square court.
How To Play:
- Players form one line outside the square.
- The first two (or three with a larger group) players become a team and go to one side of the square.
- The second two players forms a team and go to the next side, and so-on.
- Each team is responsible for protecting their goal which is the length of their side of the square.
- When a ball passes over a sideline, that team goes to the end of the line and the scoring team earns a point.
- When a team reaches five points they go to the end of the line.
- Play begins when the ball is tossed into the air and the ball bounces three times while players yell “Chew-ba-ca!”
- Teams are not meant to stay the same throughout the game. Players should mix up as the return for their second, third, fourth (and so on) turns.
Creator/Author:
Orchard Gardens Pilot School Playworks After School Program in Boston, MA
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