Holiday Games and Activities

Add fun, fitness, and motor skill development to the holiday seasons with holiday Games and Activities. These fun activities, developed and field tested by an experienced elementary physical education specialist, promote the spirit of the season in classes and help provide quality physical education for children aged 5 through 11. They're excellent teaching resources for elementary physical educators, recreation directors, and playground supervisors. Holiday Games and Activities divides the school year into eight seasons: Back to School; Halloween; Thanksgiving; Winter, Christmas, and Hanukkah; Valentine's Day, Presidents' Day and Groundhog Day ; St. Patrick's Day; Easter; Summer. For each holiday or season, there are physical fitness activities, skills, games, rhythm and dance activities, and illustrates bulletin board ideas. Games and activities like Thankful Turkey Tag, Scrambled Eggs relay race, and Escape From the Spiders obstacle course get students involved and excited about physical education. And their excitement males teaching fun, too!
To make the games simple to teach, Holiday games and Activities has easy-to-find information that includes: Ages for which the activity is appropriate, activity goals, space required, equipment needs and preparation requirements, safety considerations, adaption suggestions, and teaching hints. There are also over 30 certificates and decoration to reproduce and use.