Dodge ball

Activity type: Active play
Materials: soft ball, chalk or masking tape to line play area
Age group: 2-6
Time: 60 mins
Language: All

Activity description:  

• Take the ball and bring all the children to stand in a circle. Go through the rules of BURN BALL 
• Mark the play area either with chalk or cones if outside. If inside, mark the area with masking tape. You can get the bigger kids to help with this.   
• A facilitator starts by "burning" a child- this means throwing the ball gently at a child and hitting them. Model this behaviour a few times. Encourage the parents to join in the game too.
• For younger kids: if the game gets to animated and smaller children become scared, one of the facilitators can take them to one side and do a calmer version of the game.

Rules of the dodge ball:

• All players stands inside of the circle.
• one player stands outside and try to "burn" other players by hitting.
• when the ball hit a players inside the circle, they move outside the circle and becomes one of the throwers.
• the game ends when there is no one left in the circle.

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