Some Games With The Air Track Mat For Kids (Part 1)

Are you a primary or secondary school teacher? If you are a PE teacher, how would you design some games to enrich your classroom? Today I would like to introduce you some games that are suitable for primary and secondary school PE classes, and these games require very simple props, we just need to prepare some gymnastic mats, or air track mats, let's have a look.

Tianji horse racing

Objective: To develop students' jumping ability and to develop the ability to work together in pairs or multiples.

Method: The players stand behind the starting line on a piece of air track mat (i.e. "one horse"). At the start of the game, the two practitioners, both straddling the same mini air track mat, march forward by jumping on both feet, and the first one to reach the finish line wins.

Rules: The players carry the mat and jump with both feet.

Suggestions: Use a unified command for both partners to increase the synchronisation of the jumps; the distance of the jumps can be determined by the practitioner's condition.

Target throwing

Objective: To develop students' ability to throw accurately and to work in small groups to develop a sense of teamwork.

Method: In groups of 10, one sandbag per person, evenly distributed in a circle of 20 metres in diameter, with four small gymnastic mats placed flat in the centre of the circle. Practitioners are instructed to throw the sandbags in unison, with multiple groups taking turns, reducing the number of small gymnastic mats by one for each round, narrowing the target range and judging the number of hits.

Rules: Practitioners are to throw and retrieve sandbags under unified command; when throwing, practitioners are not allowed to step on or over the throwing line.

Suggestions: walk, jump, crawl, etc. to retrieve sandbags; the distance of throwing can be determined according to the practitioner's actual situation.

Recommendations

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