ABCmouse
Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
Two animated children show off and demonstrate their dance moves in a music video featuring the song Head, Shoulder, Knees, and Toes.
PhysEdGames
Robot Tag
Assign a few players to be "bad robots," and the rest of the class is "good robots." Place three Hula hoops in the middle of the gym to represent the 10-second "charging station," or safe area. Set up a cone square on one end of the gym....
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Team Ball Tag
Divvy the class into equal teams and give each team a set of the same colored pinnies. Have players spread out around the gym and give each player a ball. The object of the game is to tag another team player with the ball. When a player...
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Keeper of the Castle
Set up four Hula Hoops in each corner of the gym that will be used as a base for each team. Use the center circle of the gym as the "castle" with a bunch of "treasure" in it. The treasure consists of a variety of pieces of equipment....
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Skunk Tag
Choose two taggers to be the "skunks." Set up five hula hoops in the gym; one in each corner and one in the middle. The hoops in the corners are the safe zones for the players while the middle hoop is the skunk's home. The skunks start...
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Pacman
Choose one player to be a Pacman who will walk around the lines of the gym clapping their arms like the mouth of the Pacman. Everyone else stands on a line in the gym without moving. If a Pacman tags a player, then they become a Pacman....
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Space Invaders
Split the class into two groups—the meteors and the satellites—with the majority of the class being satellites. The inner circle in the gym is "inner space" while the court around it is "outer space." When satellites are in inner space...
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Pizza Tag
Who said pizza and tag don't go together? Assign one person as the "chef" to be the tagger and to stand in the middle of the gym. Divvy the rest of the class into three equal groups of "toppings" (ex: cheese, pepperoni, onion). Have all...
ABCmouse
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
Sing along to Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star with a music video featuring two children on a camping trip and the friendly animals that enjoy watching the night sky.
PhysEdGames
Fresher
Split the class in half. Set up two cones on opposite ends of the gym, using the gym lines as boundaries. These are the jails. The object of the game is to tag another player that is "older" (not in age) than another. The "fresher" a...
Little Baby Bum
Numbers Song—Number 1
Number one is the theme of a music video in which one boy takes a hike to discover a plethora of items such as one fast car, a jet airplane, a long train, and more!
Little Baby Bum
Three Blind Mice
Enjoy a new take on the classic nursery rhyme, Three Blind Mice, with a music video featuring a group of mice and their adventures in space.
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Hospital Tag
Begin the game by setting up the two opposite corners of the gym as hospitals, while assigning two taggers. Choose two people as ambulance drivers, and they will use the scooters as ambulance beds (scooters are connected with a mat on...
Little Baby Bum
Two Little Dicky Birds
Sing along to the nursery rhyme, Two Little Dicky Birds, with a captivating music video that follows two blue birds as they fly and search for a worm.
Little Baby Bum
ABC Song - Underwater!
Take an undersea trip and practice the alphabet with an engaging music video featuring the ABC's sung to a new tune.
Little Baby Bum
Ladybug Ladybug
Count and sing along to a music video featuring one engaging ladybug that finds its friends and becomes a group of five.
Little Baby Bum
This Old Man He Played One
Rock out with a band of captivating characters singing the classic nursery rhyme, This Old Man He Played One with a concert-style music video designed to reinforce rhyming and counting to 10.
Little Baby Bum
Numbers Song—5, 10, 15, 20
Practice skip counting by five with a music video featuring a yellow school bus that travels around town counting up to 20 objects.
Little Baby Bum
ABC Song—In Outer Space
Take a trip through space and practice the alphabet with a music video that features new rendition of the alphabet song. A cartoon animal sours through space, passing stars, planets, and letters A-Z.
PhysEdGames
Continuous Tag
Assign a tagger, and everyone else as runners. The tagger will tag people at random. Persons tagged must go to the other side of the gym court to perform a skill. Once they are done, they can go back in the game.
PhysEdGames
Everybody's It
Everyone is a tagger in this gym game. If a tagger tags someone else, then that person must sit down. The only way for that person to be back in the game is if the person that did the tagging is tagged by someone else.
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Blob Tag
Have the class line up on one side of the gym. Choose one person to be the tagger. When the tagger yells "blob tag!" then the whole class runs across the gym while trying not to get tagged. Anyone that's tagged, now becomes part of the...
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Line Tag
Have the class spread out on the gym floor, choosing a line to stand on of their choice. The object of the game is to stay on the line and not get tagged. The taggers and freers must also stay on the lines. If a player is tagged, they...
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Mat Tag
Choose two people to be taggers and give them each a dodgeball. Spread out the four mats in the shape of a diamond baseball on the gym floor. Assign an equal number of players to each mat. When signaled, runners run continuously to the...