Dressing Relay: in a group setting, have all students place their shoes in the middle of the room, then line up at a starting line. (* You may want to put each students initials on the shoe/clothing with a small piece of masking tape)
- Split your students into teams, ready, set, go- the first student in line slides (skates in socks) to the pile and finds one of their shoes, then skate back to the end of the line. While the next student is running to find their shoe, the first student puts his/her shoe on. Continue until each team member has one shoe on. Students must have that shoe securely on before moving onto round two.
- Now for their second turn- hop on one foot to the pile and have them find their second shoe, hop back and put the shoe on. Race is over when everyone has both shoes on!!
** Instead of sliding to the pile of shoes, have your students crab walk or bear walk.
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** For your younger students, have them find both shoes at the same time- Can they find their own shoes? Can they find a match?
** Scavenger hunt: Instead of leaving their shoes in a pile in the middle of the room, place shoes throughout the room, now they have to scan, locate and retrieve their shoe instead of just looking in one spot.
**Instead of shoes, have your students place their gloves and mittens or jackets in the middle of the room.
Don't want to work on dressing? Set up a relay where your students have to run to the table, pierce food with a fork or scoop with a spoon to fill a container then run back.
Or when you get the table, they have to pour a cup of water from a pitcher or open a container or bag of snacks.
