BUBBLE CARS: Whole Class (Locomotor Skills) Kindergarten Gym Game
Bubble Cars, is a whole class kindergarten gym game that your students are guaranteed to LOVE. Get your kinders moving and grooving around the gym while developing essential locomotor skills like walking, galloping, and skipping.
BUBBLE CARS: Kindergarten Gym Game
BUBBLE CARS is an absolute blast because it encourages physical activity through fun, imaginative play. Kids will love wearing an official badge while using hula hoops as their pretend police cars.
Additionally, the remainder of the class will get their own “bubble car” in their favorite color and have a blast zooming around the gym and exploring different ways to move their bodies.
How to Play: Bubble Cars
This kindergarten gym game is ideal for practicing spacial awareness while building coordination, balance, and cardiovascular fitness.
An absolute MUST-HAVE kindergarten gym game for any elementary physical education curriculum.
BUBBLE CARS – Kindergarten Gym Game
READY! SET! LET’S PLAY!
EQUIPMENT NEEDED
To play this super fun kindergarten gym game you are going to need just a few pieces of equipment including:
- 4 Blue Hula Hoops
- Several Different Colored Hula Hoops (not blue) – enough for each student to have their own
- Basket filled with Yellow/Red Driving Violation Tickets – or you can simply use red and yellow construction paper squares
- You can get my full color tickets, police badge and complete Bubble Cars lesson plan HERE
EASY GAME SET-UP
Place a basket with “traffic tickets” (10-12 each red/yellow) in the middle of the gym. Choose 4 students to be the “Police Officers” and give them each a blue hula hoop to use as their police car.
Then, give the rest of the students in the class a different colored bubble car (hula hoop). Set up 10-12 orange cones to make a “Driving School Area” in the corner of the gym.
GAME DIRECTIONS
Explain to the students that they must get inside their Bubble Car (Hula Hoop) and drive it safely. Explain that the lines in the gym are the roads so everyone, including the police officers, must travel on the lines in this game.
The object is for everyone to travel safely around town without speeding, driving off the road, or getting into an accident. There is no running in this game – skipping, galloping, walking only. It’s perfect for working on essential locomotor skills.
If a student drives off the road, “crashes” or runs into another student’s “bubble car” they must sit down and wait for a police officer who will get a yellow ticket from the basket and bring it to them.
Once they get a yellow warning ticket they can get back in the game and begin traveling safely again.
If a student is running, a police officer may bring them a yellow ticket for that, as well. If a student that has a yellow ticket gets into another crash or gets caught “speeding” or driving off the road, a police officer then brings them a red ticket.
The police officer then must gently escort them to the “driving school area” where they must stay until the end of the round.
Switch police officers after each round of play.
GAME TEACHING TIPS
Here are a few bonus tips to make this kindergarten gym game even more fun for your students to play!
- I like to play the Kidz Bop version of the song “Life is a Highway” when I play this kindergarten gym game with my students.
- Junior Kindergarten, First and Second grade students love this game too.
- Sometimes I also put store and restaurant signs up (McDonalds, Walmart, etc.) for the kids to travel around to. You can even have the kids make the signs.
- I often tell the police officers that they have magical cars so they don’t have to move along the lines – they think this is super cool.
- When students are in the “Driving School Area” I have them practice moving around with their “cars” safely. Sometimes I have them actually hula hoop when they are there – you decide – just have fun with it!
THE FINAL WHISTLE
So, why not blast some “clean” and upbeat PE music and bring the excitement of this awesome kindergarten gym game to your gymnasium TODAY!
This dynamic whole class game is sure to be your students’ new favorite way to have a blast while learning and practicing key PE skills!
GREAT NEWS! You can snag your very own PDF of this awesome BUBBLE CARS: Kindergarten Gym Game RIGHT HERE.
It’s also a very easy emergency PE lesson plan to leave for a substitute teacher. Just print off, gather the equipment, and you’re good to go. So much FUN!
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