Full Length PE Games
These full-length games are all designed to be played during a 45-60 minute period, and work best when coupled with some of our fantastic warm-up games. These games are all designed to keep the most kids active for the most amount of time possible, and really focus on ensuring that everyone has a role to fill (so that there is very little potential for any kids to be simply standing around). All of these games have been played (oftentimes over and over again!), by large groups of kids, and all of these games help to ensure constant fun, participation and activity. Feel free to change or modify any elements of the games so that they better suit your specific group, and please be sure to comment and vote on your favorites!
Danish Long Ball
Equipment: A bench. A kickball. A giant hula hoop, or a zone marked off with cones. A home base (like a baseball base). Pinnies to split up the teams. Description: Split the kids into 2 even teams. The game is set up much like kickball, except you set up home plate on...
Towels
Equipment: Pinnies to separate kids into two teams. 20-30 “towels” (pinnies, scarves, face clothes…etc). A container to hold 20-30 “towels.” A “magic” item (rubber chicken, beanbag…etc.). Cones to mark the playing area (outside only). Description: Split the kids into...
Frisbee Golf
Equipment: Cones (the biggest you got!). Hula Hoops. Frisbees. Description: Put the kids into teams (teams of 2 or 3 work best), and give each team a hula hoop and a cone. Tell each team that they have 2-minutes to find somewhere to put their golf hole (hula hoop),...
Assassin
Equipment: Class set of pinnies. Class set of dodge balls (or another type of soft, "throwable" item). A playground or marked safe zone. A Popsicle stick with the name of each kid on its own stick (make sure to have a couple of extra sticks as well for those that go...
Capture The Flag
Equipment: 2 “Flags” (can be rubber chickens, pinnies…etc.). Pinnies to distinguish teams. Cones to mark boundaries. Description: Split the kids into 2 even teams. After defining the playing area (use the full gym if inside, and make the game as big as you want if you...
Handball
Equipment: One dodgeball. Pinnies to make two even teams. Cones to define playing area (lots of cones if you are going to play outside). 2 large traffic cones. Description: Split the kids into two even teams. Using the basketball keys, place cones all around them...
Benchball
Equipment: 2 benches (if you are playing with a large number of kids, line the benches up end to end to accommodate more players). As many dodgeballs as you have. Pinnies to separate teams. Description: Split the kids into 2 even teams. Split the playing area into two...
Cheetah Chase
Equipment: 8 cones. Pinnies (optional – to distinguish teams). 4 items to pass (baton, rubber chicken, dodgeball…etc.). Description: Build a rectangle using the 8 cones as shown on the next page (the rectangle should be approximately as big as a full length volleyball...
Prison Break
Equipment: 5-7 hula hoops. A cone for each hula hoop. Pinnies to distinguish opposing teams. 2 individual “Safe Zones” (playgrounds work great if they are relatively close together, otherwise mark two same size safe zones using cones). Description: Split the kids into...