![]() Directions: Students will toss the balloon into the air and use the striking motion to hit the black balloon (Spider) with foam noodle (Spider Stick.) #7 - Spider Hit: Equipment and set up: Foam noodles cut into 1/2 or 1/3, black balloons. Directions: Students will use the overhand throw to attempt to knock the plastic cup (Hat) off the bottle (Ghost.) Set the plastic cups on top of the weighted plastic bottles which are placed on top of the crates. ![]() #6 - Hats Off: Equipment and set up: Plastic bottles weighted with sand or salt, plastic cups, sponge balls, crates or boxes. Directions: Lying on floor, slide the bean bags towards the bottles (Tombstones) attempting to knock them down. Set up the bottles in a line against the wall. #5 - Graveyard Bowling: Equipment and set up: Bean bags and plastic bottles. When they are all down, students will set them up and try again. Directions: Students will backhand throw the frisbee (Flying Saucer) at the bottles, attempting to knock them down. Set the bottles on the crates or boxes, having the crates against a wall so stray frisbees don’t fly into anyone. #4 - Flying Saucers: Equipment and set up: Frisbees, crates, plastic bottles. Toss back and forth inside the “haunted house.” #3 - Brain Toss: Equipment and setup: Scoops (brain holders,) red bean bags (brains,) mats (haunted house.) Set the mats upright, next to each other, to form a “house.” Directions: Students will place a bean bag in the scoop and underhand toss it to their partner. Directions: Standing on the polyspot, swing the bat as you would in baseball, attempting to hit the ghost. Drape a white sheet over it to represent a “Ghost.” Place 2-4 polyspots on the floor to show students where they should stand while striking at the “Ghost.” This is for safety, so students don’t get too close to each other when striking. Hang the Hoppity Hop ball from a basketball hoop so it is chest level for the students. ![]() #2 - Fly the Ghost Home: Equipment and set up: Plastic bats, polyspots, Hoppity Hop ball, and white sheet. Remind them to slow down before reaching the end line. Stress safety by telling students to keep two hands on partner’s back while pushing. The other student will push the partner on the scooter to a designated area and back. Directions: Student sits “pretzel style” on the scooter. Setting up along the wall is preferred, because they are out of the path of others. Designate a starting point and an ending point. Have scooters available, one for every two students. #1 - Batmobile: Equipment and set up: Scooters. If the total number of students is an odd number, then alternate turns in the partner stations. Stations #1 and #3 involve partners, so divide children into groups of 2 or 4 per station. Demonstrate each station before assigning a starting point for each student. Stations are set up so students rotate clockwise around the gym. The same concept can be done for underhand tossing, either having the hoops propped against the wall or laying flat.Review the cues for the underhand throw, overhand throw, backhand throw and striking. Of course once most hoops were down, the distance for many was great and the angles more difficult, but they still had a blast trying to make that tough throw. They retrieved the balls, then placed them back on spots and then galloped when the music starting playing. All hoops that had a ball go threw were considered "burst", and the kids would then lay them down. I then talked out the cues and then they threw the ball. I had them skip (changed styles after each attempt) around until the music stopped and then they went to a spot once the music stopped, and they picked up the ball and posed in the proper throwing style. I added practicing locomotor skills to the activity. I placed the same amount of polyspots with yarn balls/foam tennis balls on top within the perimeter, and at a reasonable throwing distance. Here are my modifications to this nice activity.For throwing, I propped up on the wall a hula per kid around the perimeter of my gym.
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