Best Kids Class Ever

[profdavis]

So if you don't know I run a basketball/soccer program for very small children(who was stupid enough to hire me for that right?) and I just got our new curriculum and games list and found that we have a new game called Pac-Man. This game is designed where you use the lines on the court to run away from Pac-Man (me running around going nom-nom-nom-nom, hilarious sight trust me) and it got me thinking to make one whole class styled from old video games. Here's what I have equipment wise;

- Tall and short cones
- rope Ladder
- Two different size basketball (a lot of them)
- Two hoops (one very small, the other about 5-6 ft tall)
- Spots
- small buckets
- 2 large buckets
- hula hoops
- Foam noodles
- Tunnel
- Hula Hoop Stands

I've come up with a Donkey Kong style Obstacle Course, a frogger type game, and a paperboy style game.

Any ideas for others using the items I have?

[DialMforMary]

I'll brainstorm on this, but I remember playing Pac-man a lot in my elementary school phy ed. I was never the sort of person to play much... but I always thought that one was kind of fun.

EDIT: I would LOVE to see video of you running around like Pac-man

[profdavis]

When this class happens I'll have to have Ceglia film it.

[DialMforMary]

Awesome!!

[CommissarJB]

(06-18-2012 03:31 PM)profdavis Wrote:  So if you don't know I run a basketball/soccer program for very small children(who was stupid enough to hire me for that right?) and I just got our new curriculum and games list and found that we have a new game called Pac-Man. This game is designed where you use the lines on the court to run away from Pac-Man

Is anybody else's spidey sense ringing right about now? Let me get this straight, you run around chasing these kids shouting, "nom nom nom". Do the parents know where their kids are or do you just pick up stragglers after school in a van? I also love your description of the children: very small. By the Seven! Someone call San Francisco's social services department.

Seriously though, that sounds like an awesome game. When I was a kid, all we had was crab soccer.

[DaynaJD]

That sounds pretty awesome. Gonna have to think about some others, but Frogger and DK sound like solid ideas. Maybe some type of q-bert jumping game?

[profdavis]

Ooooo I kinda like that. I could make a big pyramid of hula hoops laying on the ground and they have to try to get to the top while they dodge basketballs. Boom!