GYMNASTICS WARM UP

Activity Title: Spider and the Fly

GYMNASTICS Focus Skills:

- Locomotion

Equipment needed:
- Large open area free of obstruction
- 4 cones

Outline of activity:
- Students line up between cones
- 1-2 students are allocated to be “spiders”, everyone is a fly
- Students say:
o Spiders: We are the spiders
o Flies: We are the flies
o Spiders: We’re gonna catch ya
o Flies: I’d like to see you try
- Flies then try run across to the other cones and spiders try to tag them
- If tagged, fly becomes a stationary spider

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