Tyrannosaurus

Learning Outcomes

Dribbling a ball with hands stationary or moving, space awareness, and evading a tagger.

Description Of Activity

Children, move around the area, dribbling the ball for as long as possible. If a child loses control of the ball, they call, Tyrannosaurus. All then run holding their ball and trying to cross the safety line before being tagged by the tyrannosaurus. Choose a new tyrannosaurus and the game continues. 

• relaxed dribbling
• head up looking around
• not touching others

 

 

Variations

Vary action of tyrannosaurus: The tyrannosaurus tries to steal the ball from dribblers while they are dribbling. Vary action of dribblers: On the call of Tyrannosaurus, dribblers continue to dribble the ball while evading the tyrannosaurus.

Equipment/Material Required

Large round bouncy balls.
Children are spread out in a dened grass or hard surface area with a safe line. All children have a ball except one child, who is the tyrannosaurus.