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A Hallowe’en game to develop youngsters’ agility, balance, co-ordination and speed.
This fun game works on players’ agility, balance, coordination and speed and, as it progresses, works on dribbling, running with the ball, tackling, shielding and various technical challenges.
Mark out a playing area relative to the age, ability and number of your players. Mark out several ‘safe houses’ within the playing area. You need a few bibs and a supply of balls.
Choose two to four players to act as ’zombies’, perhaps determined by who can pull the scariest zombie face! The infected zombies must try and tag other players who are ’humans’, while they are outside a safe house. Zombies cannot enter the safe houses.
If a zombie tags a human, they pass their bib on and are no longer infected. The aim of the game is to remain uninfected by the time the round ends.
A ’key’ must be used to enter the safe house. In round one, these are physical literacy challenges - balance on one leg, two-legged forward and backward jumps, standing up from a seated position, etc. The safe house can only hold you for five seconds and cannot be visited twice in a row.
In round two, each human has a ball. Zombies aim to become uninfected by gaining possession. The player who loses the ball becomes a zombie. To enter a safe house, players must now complete a technical challenge, such as ’V’ drags, sole roll, toe taps, etc.
Encourage players to scan to see where zombies, free space and safe houses are.
When in possession of a ball, encourage players to use different parts of their feet to dribble and take bigger touches when running into space.
1. Choose two to four players to be ’zombies’, all others are ’humans’
2. Zombies aim to tag humans in the first round, and steal their balls in the second round
3. Humans can enter ’safe houses’ by completing a physical or technical task
4. Players who are humans at the end of the round gain a point
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