1.  PAC man Tag

    This is a game where the students have to stay on the lines of either and gym floor of a football field.
Make sure you designate which lines you want your students to use.  Everyone must remain on the lines at all times, even the person that is it.  Everyone moves around on the lines one foot in front of the other, working on balancing on the line while on motion.  It will also get your legs warmed up for footbag.  Have fun, it's not to hard.  Just think about how the video game is played.

2.  Soccer Kickball

Equipment - 1 nerf ball, 2 cones, 2 bases

Grade level - 4-6

Divide the class into even teams.  One team is up to kick and the other in the
field.  Everyone on the kicking teams kicks before they go out into the
field.  One base is placed in the field (as far out as the age level
permits).  Two cones are placed approx. 4 feet on either side of home
base (this too, depends on the age level of the students).  The kicker
kicks a stationary ball from home plate and then runs out to 1st base
and back to home - s/he may not stop on 1st base.  The fielding tries
to kick the kicked ball through the cones before the runner gets
back to home base.  The fielding team may not use their hands to play
the ball. If they do, it is an automatic point for the kicking team.  If the kicker
makes it back home before the ball is kicked through the cones, the kicking team gets
a point.  If the fielding team kicks the ball through the cones before
the kicker gets back to home, it is no point.  The game goes fairly fast
and everybody gets a chance to kick and field the ball.

                   X (cone)

                   O (home base)                  O (first base)

                   X (cone)

3.  Gator Tag

Eqiupment:  One or two gator balls or foam balls

    This activity uses designated boundaries and uses a gator ball in the hand of a tagger.  The tagger must not throw the ball but must tag with the ball in hand.  The person that they tag then becomes the tagger.  This activity warms up the legs and gets you ready to play footbag.

4.  Jewels in the Crown

Equipment needed:  4 hula hoops, 10 bean-bags, 10 small foam balls,  5 gator balls

    This activity requires some hula hoops and a variety of different types of balls and beanbags to symbolize jewels.  Place the hoops a ways apart and place an equal number of jewels in each crown (hula hoop).  Then divide the class up so that there are students at each hoop.  The object is to steal the jewels from the other groups crowns.  This game is exciting and competitive and it will go on forever if you let it.  This will get everyone warmed up and ready to play footbag.