SANTA’S SLEIGH RELAY: Fun K-5 (Scooters) Team Christmas PE Game
Bring Christmas magic to your gym with SANTA’S SLEIGH RELAY – Super Fun K-5 Team Christmas PE Game!
Santa’s Sleigh Relay – Christmas PE Game
In this festive elementary PE activity, students become reindeer and Santa, riding scooters, delivering presents, and racing in high-energy Christmas relays that build teamwork, fitness, and even some money counting.
This easy-to-set-up holiday PE game is perfect for December gym class, winter parties, and school Christmas events where kids can move, laugh, and celebrate together.
SANTA’S SLEIGH RELAY is a surefire way to spark joy and enthusiasm with your students.
This game is a must-have resource for any elementary physical education teacher looking to energize their Christmas PE lessons and keep their students active.
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Hi there, it’s so great to meet you! I’m Mrs. T. (Love 2 Teach and Learn) or you can call me Jen – a Michigan mom, wife, new grandma (aka “Jemma”) and K-12 PE teacher who has also taught Kindergarten, 3rd, and 6th grades.
I love teaching PE class because I get to spend time telling silly jokes and exercising while laughing with my students.
READY! SET! LET’S RELAY!
SANTA’S SLEIGH RELAY, is so much fun. I just know you are going to love playing it with your kiddos this Christmas Holiday season.
Equipment Needed
For this Awesome Santa’s Sleigh Relay Christmas PE Game, you will need the following pieces of equipment:
- 3-4 JUMP ROPES
- 3-4 LONG SCOOTERS (or you can use small ones that connect together)
- 3-4 HULA HOOPS
- SEVERAL BOXED CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
- MONOPOLY MONEY or FAKE MONEY (all different denominations)
Simple Game Set-Up
FIRST, divide the class into 3-4 teams.
NEXT, have them line up with their teams at one end of the gym.
THEN, give each relay team a hula hoop for collecting presents, a jump rope for pulling the sleigh, and a long scooter (or 2-3 small scooters connected together).
FINALLY, stuff each boxed present with a different denomination of Monopoly money and scatter gifts along the floor on the opposite end of the gym from where your relay teams are lined up.
GAME DIRECTIONS: Santa’s Sleigh Relay
Explain to the students that they will be using Santa’s Sleigh to gather all of the Christmas presents as quickly as they can.
When the relay begins, the first person in line becomes the reindeer that pulls Santa, using the jump rope, down to the opposite end of the gym to where the presents are.
Depending on how big your scooters are, you can have the reindeer pull one student (Santa) or two students (Santa and his helper or Mrs. Claus-whatever you want to say).
The student on the sleigh/scooter grabs one present from the pile, the sleigh then goes back and delivers it to the team’s hula hoop.
Then, rotate positions and head down to grab another boxed present.
- The Reindeer (Scooter Puller) goes to the end of the relay line, the person who was holding onto the jump rope (sitting in the front of the scooter) now becomes the reindeer puller, the rider now becomes Santa holding onto the jump rope and the next person in line jumps on the scooter and becomes the helper or the rider.
When all of the presents are collected, have the students open up their gifts, count up the dollar amount and the team that collected the most money wins the relay.
Santa’s Sleigh Relay – Game Teaching Tips
Here are a few fun tips to make this holiday game even more awesome.
- TIP 1: You definitely are going to want to play upbeat, Christmas music when you play this game with your students. ‘Run, Run, Rudolph’ is Awesome!
- TIP 2: If you have old, bent, hula hoops, they work AWESOME for pulling the sleigh – even better than the jump ropes.
- TIP 3: You can find the boxed presents at the Dollar Store.
- TIP 4: Adjust the dollar amount depending on age/grade level (smaller amounts for 2nd and 3rd grade and higher amounts up to $500 for 4th and 5th graders).
- TIP 5: I usually don’t bother with the money for the younger grades (K-1). I just have them collect the presents. Depending on the class, I also skip the scooters for the younger kids and just have them run or skip down and grab the presents.
Happy Holidays
So, what do you say? Why not blast some “clean” and upbeat PE music , maybe tell a few funny Christmas Jokes and bring the excitement of SANTA’S SLEIGH RELAY to your gymnasium today!
Don’t forget – you can snag your very own copy of this easy, fun, NO PREP holiday lesson plan RIGHT HERE.
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Your physical education lesson plans will definitely level up when you add Santa’s Sleigh Ride Relay to your Christmas PE Class Schedule.
Thanks so much for stopping by today and spending some time with me.
I really appreciate it and I hope that you have a TRULY BLESSED And BEAUTIFUL Day spent laughing until your cheeks hurt!
