Cones should be scattered throughout the gym and one note card from each set of rhyming words should be taped to a cone. Students should be scattered throughout the room, starting in their personal space. Pass out the remainder of the note cards to each student (there should be two students for each card). Call out a locomotor skill (skip, jump, run, walk, hop, or gallop). Students should begin doing the locomotor skill while looking at the different index cards on the cone to find the cone that rhymes with the card they are holding. The first student to find the cone should get on a low level and the second student to get to the cone should get on a high level. After completing the task all children switch cards and the activity begins again but with a different locomotor skill.

Put pictures on the index cards so younger students or struggling readers can practice their rhyming. For older age groups, you can change the difficulty of the words so that they rhyme, but do not look the same (Ex:sleigh and bay). For older grades, you could use the same activity but instead of using rhyming words you could use prefixes and suffixes. Students could have the meaning of a prefix or suffixes written on an index card and then they have to find the prefix or suffix that matches their meaning (prefixes and suffixes would be taped to the cones. The students would have the meaning cards in their hands, then they would do a different skill activity, such as jump rope, once they find the match. You could also use a different skill activity at each cone).

Students can work with a partner. One student can say a word, and the other student can say a word that rhymes with that word. The rhyming words can be recorded on a worksheet to turn in at the end of class.