Friday Night Funkin'. Play in browser. Doghouse 2. Fears to Fathom - Home Alone. Grief Remake. The Baby In Yellow. Team Terrible. The Night Is Long. A short Christmas themed horror game. Jonny's Games. Anger Foot. A lightning-fast hard-bass blast of kicking doors and kicking ass. Children must pass the jingle ball around the circle with their hands without making a noise. Then have them pass it under and over their heads, side to side, etc. Give every child a card each.
First, have them sort themselves into each set: clubs, spades, hearts and diamonds. To make it more complicated, have them put themselves in ascending order: Ace, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King. Learning Objectives: working together, problem-solving, following instructions, cooperation, communication.
Have the class stand on the far side of the hall and put on blindfolds. Once the class has started moving, you can move around and continue talking.
NB: For safety, have half the class carry out the task while the other half acts as safety stewards without blindfolds. This means they have the responsibility of "redirecting" peers who might otherwise hit a wall, table, etc.
Learning Objectives: working together, problem-solving, following instructions, cooperation, communication, responsibility.
One child leaves the classroom. While they're gone, the rest of the children think of a new rule, e. When a rule has been decided upon, the child rejoins the group and has to guess the secret rule by asking questions and watching the other children play. This can be done in smaller groups too. Learning Objectives: self-confidence, working together, problem-solving, following instructions, cooperation, communication, creativity. Cat and Mouse—also known as Duck, Duck, Goose—is a classic for a reason!
Have the whole group stand in a circle. The mouse taps a cat on the shoulder and has to get back to his or her place before the cat can catch him or her. Learning Objectives: self-confidence, working together, problem-solving, following instructions, cooperation, communication.
Have all the children stand in a circle. Everyone puts their hands in the middle and takes hold of two different people's hands. Can the group work together to untangle themselves without letting go? Have the children hold hands between their legs to make a line. Can they then make a circle? To make it more challenging, split into two teams and have them race each other.
For this exercise, you will need a strong chair. Split the class into groups of six children preferably of similar sizes. Get the first person to sit on the chair.
The second person then sits on their knees, the third on theirs. Put the children into groups of 6—8. One group at a time, have the children stand on a bench make sure it's a sturdy one, first! Can the group rearrange themselves in order of height without falling off? Try this again with age order, alphabetical order or any other order you can think of.
Repeat with one child blindfolded. NB: If possible, place soft mats to the sides of the bench so that when children fall, they don't hurt themselves. This is especially important for the blindfolded child. Learning Objectives: self-confidence, working together, problem-solving, following instructions, cooperation, communication, trust.
Balloon Keepie Uppie is a fun way to get kids moving and encourage teamwork. Have the children sit on the floor in groups of 4—8. Start by tossing one balloon above each group. The aim is to keep the balloon in the air. Can you save the day? Level up and earn XP on your way to the world championship. Challenge other players online in this epic penalty shootout! Outlast your opponents in the ultimate copter arena.
Grab upgrades and superpowers, avoid the toxic fog, and be the last one flying! Test your aim in online multiplayer! Race your opponent to get to zero first. You'll have to calculate your own score. Play the classic game, or mix it up with an all-new action mode: fireballs, blasters, gravity wells, and more! Your pineapple is trapped at the top of a huge tower!
Jump over pits of lava and dodge dangerous traps to rescue it. I tell them that if someone misses their turn, that is a 4-beat rest- we will not give you another turn or stop for you! This is also a good time to talk about the importance of respect for yourself and others and especially focus on facial expressions. I encourage them not to make a cringing face when they improv a common defense mechanism , laugh, or react negatively to anyone else's playing. Once students are comfortable improvising, remind them of one of the longer patterns you practiced with a phrase.
Practice everyone playing that pattern together, clapping for 4 beats, then repeating the pattern. Once they can do that, tell students that the 4 beats of clapping is when one person will be improvising. Everyone will play the pattern in between each person's turn to improv.
Everyone continues to improvise in this activity, but this time instead of going straight around the circle, you improvise in between each student's turn. Go all the way around the circle with this pattern once to make sure students understand the new order. After that, the order will resume as before. Eventually of course I like to up the ante and have any students who miss the echo pattern put their drums down for the rest of the round.
I also raise the level of difficulty with my older students by telling students they can also play the echo pattern on their turn and they would improvise something else after everyone else echos.
If your group is focused and positive, it is great fun to get to the point where I can just tell students to watch me and play something appropriate, and just go to town jamming with the whole group. Here's an example, but you can see how if everyone is watching, listening, and comfortable in the circle, you can take this in many different ways and is a great way to culminate the drum circle time:. You can find all of the sources linked here, plus many other great drum circle and world music ideas, on my Pinterest board called Music Teaching: World Music and Drum Circles.
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