Ball games for inside

The team with the most points wins. If you want to get your students up and moving on a cold and wintery day, then playing freeze dance is the way to go. It will not only help them break a sweat, but it will get all of their energy out in a matter of a few minutes. To play, all you have to do is put on some music and tell them to let loose.

When the music stops they must freeze. The last one left standing wins! Then the other students tell them if they are getting close hot or not cold. This is a twist on the game musical chairs. Push all of the classroom desks to the side and place large circular stickers ones that can easily be placed and re-placed on the floor down onto the ground. Space them out like you would a chair. Start the music and have students walk around the circles just like they would if there was a chair there.

The last person standing that is not on a circle sticker is out. Each time a person loses, a sticker is removed from the ground. The game continues until only one person is left standing. Make paddles out of paper plates and paint sticks or rulers. She used balloons, but my kids usually use ping pong balls. Ping pong ball battle. The kids invented this indoor ball game on their own. Tape two cups on opposite ends of the table. Each player gets a ball and a straw.

Yours truly is of the opinion that a sturdy pencil would work better, but I was out-voted so what do I know? The object is to get your own ball into your cup while preventing the other player from doing the same. One word: chaos. Paper football.

My oldest son likes to toss around his plush football but my husband taught the boys how to play table top paper football and now they can't get enough of it.

Instructions via Spoonful. For a super easy ball game on the floor , turn a box upside down, cut little windows along the bottom of one edge and roll balls through the openings. Assign point values to each opening and practice your math skills! Set up a tape shape on the floor with some painter's tape for some directed bouncing.

This is so easy, but you would be surprised at how entertaining it is. Mama Smiles has instructions for how to play marbles , French style. Play pool with golf balls and pencils ; it can also be played on the table via All for the Boys.

Race ping pong balls along a floor maze by blowing through a straw. Set up a court for Indoor Foot Volleyball. Be sure to clear the area! Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products.

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Use a temporary marker to make a design on each. Every kid then uses a straw to blow on the ball and pass it successfully through the maze. The one who does it in the shortest time wins. If you have a long hallway or passage in your home, this is a great game to play. Use some old boxes and cut out small holes on one side. Place these boxes upside down so that these holes form tunnels. All kids troop together on one end of the hallway with the boxes on the other end.

Start rolling tennis balls towards the boxes such that they pass through the tunnels. The kid to roll the most balls through the tunnels wins. A table, a bunch of straws, a ping pong ball and a couple of cups. This can be played either by using the power of breath or by using hands.

Tape both the cups on either side of the table to form the goal posts. The straws are the hockey sticks. Let each kid do his best to put the ball in the goal by using straws to push it around, or blowing through them to push it in one direction.

This one is bound to create some litter but is so much fun to play, you might end up joining the kids as well. Wrap a good amount of duct tape around a cardboard piece. Wrap the duct tape with the sticky side outside. Then, take old newspapers and crumble them into balls. Stand at a distance and throw them at the board in such a way that the ball sticks to the board. Bowling is always about dropping the most pins. How about dropping the least ones?