Description
Students practice soccer skills in this competitive activity.
Supplies
- Soccer balls
- Hula hoops (enough for each child to have 1)
- Cones
How to Play
- Prep work: Set up cones along the perimeter of the playing field, and put lots of soccer balls in the middle of the space.
- Each student grabs a hula hoop and puts it at the edge of the space, remembering which hula hoop is theirs.
- On ‘Go’ students work to fill their hula hoop up with as many soccer balls as possible in 10 minutes.
- Students can only use their feet to take the balls to their hoop, and can only move with one ball at a time.
- Students can also grab balls from other player’s hula hoops.
- At the end of 4 minutes students must freeze.
- The student with the most soccer balls in their hoop is the winner.
- Multiple rounds can be played by putting the soccer balls back in the center each time.
Activity Prompts for Reflection
- What is a strength you have that you used during this activity?
- What is a weakness of yours that made this activity difficult for you?
- What is a strength of yours that you use in sports?
- What could you work on to do better in this activity if we played it again?
Other Ways to Play
- Have students put their book bag or some type of marker to help them remember which hula hoop is theirs.
- Instead of a timer, play a song and at the end of the song, students must freeze and count their soccer balls.
- Set a certain goal number of soccer balls, and the first student who has that many in their hula hoop is the winner.
Additional Notes
- Use the SEL Activity Prompts to tie other SEL competencies to this activity.
