Sponge Bob, Gary, and Patrick

K-4

Equipment: 1 hula-hoop

                      Small balls with one less ball than the number of teams

                      1 cone per team

I created this game from others and my students loved it.  It is better if used towards the end of the school year on the younger children.

Have a big circle made by using the cones.  Place children in teams of 3.  One is Sponge Bob, one is Gary, and the last is Patrick from the cartoon show on Nickelodeon.  Each team sits by a cone.  In the center of the circle you will place the balls inside the hula-hoop (having one less ball than there are teams).  You will call out one of the cartoon names.  That child will run around the outside of the circle while the other two children make a house by standing and holding hands over head.  The running child will run under the house and get a ball from the middle and run back to sit down under the house.  One child will not get a ball. 

Debi Aikin