Hula Hoop Together

A series of physical fitness games, activities, and teamwork challenges prompt youngsters to get moving! Using Hula Hoops, bean bags, pool noodles, and other materials, elementary and middle schoolers work together and get some exercise...

Learners investigate skipping and sliding. In this movement lesson plan, students practice skipping and sliding while holding colored chalk marking the wall mixing the colors to make different colors.

Students find a partner and use a scooter with a rope tied to it. There are two hula hoops, one with balls in it and one with nothing in it with which the studentsl have to get all the balls from one hoop to the other hoop. One student...

To improve mobility, social skill development, and the concept of position, learners with physical disabilities work together to raise and lower a hula hoop over their heads. The activity is short and intended to be used as a warm-up.

Ribbit! Pre-K and Kindergartens turn into frogs in these fun movement games that have them practicing the motor skills of jumping, landing and transferring weight. A cross between Simon Says and Red Light/Green Light, the teacher gives...

Working in teams, groups of learners must collaborate to make their way across an imaginary lava field using foam tiles, carpet pieces, hula hoops, etc. This activity would be best if adapted to a larger facility or outdoors!

Students move around to the music of The Old Brass Wagon". When the music stops, they find three people in their group quickly. Each group gets a hula hoop and must hold it with their left hand. When the music restarts, they go around...

Students review game directions along with the continents. They sing a song together and respond with a movement depending on the continent which is called out by the teacher.

Students learn direction, skipping in rhythm, right side-left side recognition, and cooperation.

Students explain what it means to include others into their group, and to work together to solve a problem.