K-2 PE Lesson Ideas

Set Up: Prior to the activity, set up a large area (depending on the number of students) with boundaries marked by cones. Scatter the bean bags throughout the designated area. Place one hula hoop on the outside of each edge of the boundaries.

Divide the students into four groups and place each group at one of the four hula hoops. Explain to the students that the area inside the cones is the "ocean" and the bean bags are "crab food." Explain that the hula hoop is their team hula hoop and is where they are going to place the bean bags that they collect.

The students are going to crab walk inside the boundaries and collect the bean bags. They are only allowed to get one bean bag at a time. Once they get a bean bag, they place it on their stomach and crab walk to their team’s hula hoop. They place the bean bag in the hula hoop and go back to get another bean bag. Each team is trying to collect the most bean bags either before time runs out or all the bean bags are gone.