Page 12 - Physical Social Emotional Skills

TWISTER

• Ask a group of children to bring their 6 bricks to the
carpet or to an area big enough to complete gross
motor movements, e.g. outside on grass or in play
area.
• The teacher asks the children to drop their individual
bricks in the area and to make sure that the bricks are
spread out and not on top of each other.
• Children now stand around the bricks in a circle.
• Teacher gives instructions to the learners and they
must move the different body parts.
- Using your left foot, stand on a green brick.
- Using your right foot, stand on a red brick.
- Using your left hand, place it on a blue brick.
- Using your right hand, place it on a yellow brick.
- Now start with the left foot again and change the
colour, e.g. move your left foot to a yellow brick.

• Continue with the game. When the child falls over or
cannot reach a coloured brick then the child is out.

ACTION

ATTRACTION

• Work in pairs initially and then try working in
groups of 3 or 4.
• The objective of the game is to develop a
logical, short program of movements.
• Children assign an action to a brick - they can
decide on this action together.
• Link this game to a pirate theme - design a
treasure map with the bricks as clues to the
treasure!

Example:
• Green = walk 10 steps forward
• Red = Stop
• Yellow = Turn 90 degrees to
your right
• Orange = Turn 90 degrees to your left
• Dark Blue = Sit down
• Light Blue = Stand up

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