Toss Across Game

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Mark a place to stand and toss the beanbag into the hole If it lands on the board you score 1 point; if it lands in the hole score 2 points. Take turns, and the first person to reach 20 points wins. Adjust the score and rules depending on player abilities. You can also play ‘hot and cold’ by saying whether a child is getting closer (‘hotter’) or further away (‘colder’) from a hidden bean bag. 13. Endurance Race Tic Tac Toe is normally a thinking game but you can also turn it into a gross-motor exercise. Draw a large Tic Tac Toe board on the paving or on a large sheet of paper. An alternative is that players have to get into the water and go to the grid to place their counter. Explain that everyone will be playing a giant version of noughts and crosses. The aim of the game is to be the first team to get three cones into an uninterrupted row on the grid.

Try pairing an adult with a child as this could be physically challenging. Also, make the net low so it is not difficult to toss the beanbag over. Adjust the height to increase difficulty. 12. Bean Bag Hide and Seek Play this game alone with your child or divide up the family or friends into two teams. 10. Juggling Instead of using noughts and crosses, use two different coloured bean bags to represent two players. The children sit in a circle and the ‘hot potato’ (bean bag) is passed from child to child. It must not be held onto for too long, or it will ‘burn’ hands. The aim is not to drop the potato when it passes to you.

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Start with two bean bags and see how many times you can juggle them without dropping them. Then try and walk around while juggling. Add in a third beanbag and give it a bash. 11. Tic Tac Toe This week, while I am doing the finishing touches on the kids’ exercise room, we had some fun with these 7 indoor bean bag games.

You can balance them on your head or on your feet, shoulders, hands or arms. Try carrying one on a wooden spoon without dropping it. In bright summer sunshine on Tuesday, the opposing groups had to run forwards in turn and throw a bean-bag on to a grid on the ground. Play hide and seek with the bean bags by hiding them around the house or garden and then sending the children to find them. When the kids have finished playing with their bean bag games, here’s how you can use them around the house or classroom:Then, mark out an area on the ground as a “pond” and place the fish inside the pond, scattered randomly. Play the fishing toss game with your child. This is a fun gross-motor game that can also be adapted to get children crossing the midline and learning their left and right sides. Teach them to receive the beanbag from the child on their left with their right hand, pass it to their left hand and pass it to the child on their right. If they use the wrong hand they are out. Time kids for completing all the tasks and then encourage them to attempt to beat their time. 19. Bean Bag Twister Start with two bean bags and see how many times you can juggle them without dropping them. Then try and walk around while juggling. Add in a third, and forth bag, and even more. If they guess correctly, they get to choose the next ‘dog’. If they guess incorrectly, they remain the ‘dog’ for a second turn. 4. Hopscotch

Children can race with friends with bean bags balancing of different parts of their bodies. If it is just you and your child, you can race against each other or you can ti Step One: If you are outside, draw the noughts and crosses grid on the ground. If you are inside, you can use masking tape that peels away easily from lino, tiles or carpet. Something to marking out on the floor (or an outdoor surface) a large 3×3 open grid (using two vertical and two horizontal lines). Size of the grid squares need to be large enough to comfortably allow the objects you are using for the counters (noughts and crosses) to fit within them.I had previously used these bean bags, as well as these shape bean bags, and these letter bean bags— all were good quality and held up to my kids, if you’re not up for the sewing project!) The object is to take turns to lay down a bean bag on a square and try to make a row of three. The first person to make a row of three vertically, horizontally or diagonally is the winner. 11. Volleyball Toss

In this variation of netball, use a bean bag instead of a ball. Throw the bean bag to each other (or to your own team members if there are a few players) and score by throwing the bean bag into the hoop. Bean bags are a great tool for balancing activities. There are many different ways people of any age can practise their balancing skills. Make this more challenging by changing the rules – hop on one leg to the end, balance two bean bags on your head, race with a bean bag on your ruler, etc. Turn the music on and dance with your child while tossing the beanbag to and fro. When the music stops, you both have to freeze in position. Set out some hula hoops or mark out targets on the ground, and have your child toss the bean bags into the hoops. For beginners, place the hula hoop close to where the child is standing.Make things more challenging again by balancing while walking, or making movements while maintaining balance. Commenting afterwards about the pupils’ chat with the princess, Dame Kelly said she posed a question about Kate’s three children asking if she saw different “traits” in them, and the royal replied “Oh yes, definitely”. The double Olympic champion said when the schoolgirls quizzed Kate about being a “royal”, the princess said it was something “she had to learn”. The children sat criss-cross applesauce in a circle and wrapped one arm across their bellies and used their other arm to receive and pass the bean bag from one friend to the other. This was more challenging than it might seem, and once the children seemed to have a good handle on the process, I made things a little more interesting by calling out “switch directions” and “switch arms.” Hot Potato In this variation of netball, use a beanbag instead of a ball. Throw the beanbag to each other (or to your own team members if there are a few players) and score by throwing the beanbag into the hoop. The objective of Noughts And Crosses Race is to get either three noughts or three crosses in a row either vertically, horizontally or diagonally!