Holiday Lesson Ideas

Set up: Before the students arrive, the teacher will have the station signs posted around the gym. (Copy the information for each station listed below.) The teacher can have the equipment set up before the students arrive or choose to give the students responsibility opportunities by having the students set up the stations. (List the students names next to each station so they know where to go. The equipment can be sitting by the door as the students enter the gym and have them set up their first assigned station.) The equipment suggested would serve a class of 30-80 students, dividing the students into groups of 4-6. Adjust the groups according to the size of the class.

Directions: There are a total of 13 stations and each group will have 90 seconds per station. At the end of the station the horn/whistle will sound and the students will have 10 seconds to replace the equipment and move clockwise to the next station.

1. Black Cat Back—2 cones, Frisbee
• Students get on all fours, like a cat
• A Frisbee is placed on their back, and they crawl around the cone and back balancing the Frisbee

2. Haunted House—4 cones, 4 small balls to put on top of cones, 1 orange wiffle ball
• Cones set next to each other and small balls placed on top
• From 6 feet away, students throw wiffle ball to knock off small balls

3. Bats in the Cave—6-10 small black objects, 2 bins/buckets
• From 6 feet away, students toss objects into the bins/buckets

4. Pumpkin Pull—pull up bar
• Pull ups!

5. Witches Brew—9 Frisbees, 3 bins/buckets
• From 6 feet away, students will toss Frisbees into bin/buckets

6. Spider Tic-Tac-Toe—12+ plastic spiders, floor tape arranged in a tic-tac-toe pattern
• From 3 feet away, students toss spiders to get “Tic-Tac-Toe”

7. Flying Witches—2 tennis balls with black fabric tied around to make "witches", 2 stretch bands, basketball hoop
• Using the stretch bands, students will “sling shot” the witches into the basketball hoop

8. Ghostly Knock Out—12 white cups, 2 crates, 2 wiffle balls
• Six cups are stacked onto each crate
• From 6 feet away, students will throw wiffle ball to knock cups off the crate

9. Going Goblins—hula hoops, 3 stuffed goblins (or balls, Frisbees, etc.)
• From the free throw line, students throw goblins through a hula hoop hanging from the basketball hoop

10. Jack-O-Lantern Toss—9+ 2 liter bottles, 6+ pipe cleaners (to fold into “rings”)
• From 3 feet away, students will toss the rings into the bottles

11. Haunted Tunnel—3 gymnastic mats, scooter
• Mats are set up to create a tunnel
• Students will scooter their way through the tunnel

12. Ghost Roll—12 bottles (can be covered in white fabric to make “ghosts”), 2 soccer balls
• Six bottles are arranged like bowling
• Students will roll the ball to knock down the “ghosts”

13. Pin the Ghost on the Haunted Mansion—large student-make poster of haunted mansion, tiny paper ghosts with tape, blindfold
• Same as “Pin the Tail on the Donkey”
• Object is to pin the paper ghosts on an existing ghost, door, window, etc. whatever is the selected target