Rainbow Run
Coloured cones around the room. Coach calls a colour and everyone runs to touch one. Colours, listening and a sprint, for the youngest groups especially.
Overview
You need
Cones or markersOptional: Spot markersOptional: Hoops
Skills developed
- Locomotor: sprinting, stopping
- Listening: responding to a call
- Recognition: colour matching
NEL Framework: Motor Skills Development.
Set up
1Step 1
Place cones of different colours around the edge of the space, several of each colour.
2Step 2
Children start in the middle. Coach at the edge.
ChildTagger / team BCoachHoopSpotConeBallBeanbagRope or lineMarked areaWhere they move
How to play
- Call a colour. Everyone runs to touch a cone of that colour, then back to the middle.
- Add a movement: "hop to yellow", "crab walk to blue".
- Call two colours in order for the older ones.
Tips for explaining
"Touch and back." Do not stop at the cone.
"Nearest one, not the same one." Spread out.
Make it easier / harder
EasierTwo colours only. Walk.
HarderThree colours in order. Blindfold the coach and let a child call.
Safety
Cones at the edge, not the middle, so nobody trips on the way back.
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