[For Kids] Exciting Class-vs-Class Games: Team Competition Activities

Rock-Paper-Scissors Wheelbarrow

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A must-see for elementary school teachers! Build bodies while having fun with the “Rock-Paper-Scissors Wheelbarrow” activity! Mimasaka University – Elementary School Teacher – Fun Exercise

♬ Lilac – Mrs. GREEN APPLE

This is a game where pairs of two do a wheelbarrow and challenge other pairs to rock-paper-scissors; depending on the result, they swap roles.

After each round, the previous pairs dissolve: the winning pair both take the easier holding role, while the losing pair both take the tougher moving-on-hands role.

If you keep getting matched with strong rock-paper-scissors players, you might make it to the end without suffering, so let’s also see how lucky your draws are.

It’s a game that lets you enjoy the tactics of competition while having fun and getting a good workout.

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kappamaki

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Tail Tag (Team Battle)

Sprint Class (Team Tag Tail-Pulling Competition)

This is a game called “Tail Tag,” where you run around grabbing and collecting tails.

Each player wears a towel or string at their waist as a pretend tail.

While chasing each other, you try to take other people’s tails, and the team that collects the most tails wins.

Be careful—not only focus on grabbing others’ tails, or you might lose your own! It’s also fun to prepare spare tails and keep playing until everyone runs out.

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utatane

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Balloon popping

2012 Arizona Academy Sports Festival Balloon Popping

It looks a little scary, but once you try it, “Balloon Popping” is a lot of fun! First, each team puts color-coded balloons on one person’s ankle.

The team with the most balloons left unpopped at the end of the game wins.

You pop balloons by stepping on them.

Everyone runs around like in tag, protecting the balloon attached to their own foot while trying to pop the opposing team’s balloons.

Of course you have to be careful not to let yours get popped, and the loud bang when a balloon bursts can startle you, so it’s a pretty thrilling, heart-pounding game.

One balloon on the ankle is enough, but it could also be fun to try attaching several small water-balloon-sized ones!

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SAKI

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Ball Carry Tag

Ball Carry Tag

Here’s an introduction to a tag-style ball-carrying game.

The rules are very simple! Wearing a flag, teams start at the starting line and try to carry as many balls as possible to the goal within the time limit.

There are taggers in between, so be careful not to let them take the flag you’re wearing.

If a tagger takes your flag, reattach the flag placed by the tagger and return to the start to try again.

It’s a team game where you aim to transport all the balls while avoiding being caught.

It’s also fun to come up with strategies, like having someone act as a decoy.

We also recommend switching between the carrying team and the tagger team and incorporating it as an event in a sports day.

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kepiko

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River Crossing Tail Tag

Let me introduce a tail-tag river crossing game that gets your heart racing when you cross the river.

Create a river using mats or tape.

The tagger waits on the riverbank.

The runners attach a tail to their backside and dash across the river with all their might.

The tagger’s chance to grab the tail is when the runners are crossing the river! You’ll need quick reactions and clever evasive moves.

If you make it across the river, you succeed.

The tagger then waits for the next person to come and cross.

Setting a time limit for the game might make it even more exciting.

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mayumi

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Werewolf Tag

If you get tricked, you lose instantly: We played “Werewolf Tag” with For8 and it turned into an epic episode!?

In simple terms, “Werewolf Tag” is a game of tag where you don’t know who the tagger is.

In regular tag, you know who’s ‘it,’ so you just run away from that person.

But in Werewolf Tag, since you don’t know who ‘it’ is, you first have to figure out who the tagger is.

For the runners, the key to surviving is how well you can see through the tagger’s lies when they claim, “I’m not it!” Conversely, if the tagger doesn’t get exposed, they can tag freely, so the key to winning is how well they can move around early on without being found out.

If the tagger catches everyone within the time limit, the tagger wins; if even one person escapes, the tagger loses.

It’s a game kids around upper elementary school age and up can enjoy, but if you want to play with younger children, it’s easier if you add rules to soften the mind games—like revealing who the tagger is once the number of remaining runners drops to a certain number.

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sasashina

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Hoop Tail Grab

Let me introduce a thrilling hoop tail-tag game.

Attach a tail to your backside and try to avoid having it taken while staying inside a hula hoop.

If your tail gets taken, the game is over.

Because the space inside the hoop is limited, the key is to move your body cleverly so your tail doesn’t get grabbed.

Setting a time limit or preparing plenty of hula hoops can make it even more exciting.

If you increase the number of hula hoops, it’s also a good idea to add more chasers.

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mayumi

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