Ideas for Sports Week 15th - 19th JuneHello everybody,

This week we plan to do lots of Sports Activities at home. We are including some suggestions here for you to make it as much fun as possible. This is a link to a fantastic resource to help you plan your week.

https://sites.google.com/holyangelsns.ie/virtualsportsday/home

This resource has a pdf for you to click on - 1) A shopping list for a few treats - an essential for any good sports event ! List of Goodies to Choose from : Icecream / Jelly Snakes / Popcorn / Strawberries / Miwadi or Robinson’s Fruit Squash / Bubbles / Water Pistols / Paper Cups 2) A list of items that you already have in your house that you can use as equipment.

Running Equipment

Household Item you can use instead

Cones You can make your own using circles from cereal box.Just snip out a triangle and fold into a cone shape. Then use sellotape or glue.

If you want you can even paint them red, yellow, and green

Hoola hoops You can just use a skipping rope or a normal piece of rope

Quoit

Just use circles cut from cardboard

Bean bags Rolled up pair of socksFunny Faces Game If you want to play this game you can make

the faces , colour them and cut them out of cardboard.

Kicking Equipment:

Football or any ball Cones Cans of beans / Old boxes / Toy boxes

Sheets of paper / Twistables or CrayonsSkittles Used 2 L Water Bottles

Throwing Equipment:

Tennis BallsAny small balls

Skittles Used 2 L Water BottlesCones Toy cars, Teddies, Books standing on their

edge

Obstacle Course:Skipping RopeChalkAnything from the toy room, kitchen or Garage to use for the obstacle course e.g. Throw the socks into the box / Limbo challenge under the balloons / Homemade hurdles / Hopscotch / Hoola hoop or

Skipping Rope /

3) Music PlaylistMake your own playlist from your favourite songs or use the ready-made playlist on the website https://sites.google.com/holyangelsns.ie/virtualsportsday/the-lists

4) The ActivitiesNow just click on the link below to find all the activities that you can choose from. Each activity is explained in detail with a short youtube clip to demonstrate how it is played.https://sites.google.com/holyangelsns.ie/virtualsportsday/the-activities

Some More Ideas to Choose from on the twinkl website

This website has lots of ideas for Sports at home also.

www.twinkl.ie Type Sports at Home into the search bar.

You can choose from Junior or Senior Challenge Cards depending on your age. Browse the activities and choose which ones you fancy doing.As well as the normal sports day items, they also have some yoga activities and ideas for a scavenger hunt and a sports quiz.

You might feel you deserve to print off some medals and certs as rewards for all your effort!

All we need now is a week of

and don’t forget the

Have fun everyone! 😎