Good Afternoon,
Another week down and some well needed holidays are on the horizon for all the hard working home learning hero’s in your house. This weeks blog will be brief as it’ll be a much shorter week for you all and will look at some simple parachute games that you could do at home or outdoors. Don’t worry, I’m sure no one has a parachute lying around, you can easily use an alternative like a bed sheet/large scarf/blanket or any big piece of material you have. If possible try and get everyone in the household/bubble involved as it works best with a few people. However if this isn’t possible you can always tie the ends onto something and it should still work for most of the games. All our young people enjoy the parachute when it comes out and they each have their preferences on what things we do with it. Here are a few of them………
Nursery Rhymes
Head Shoulders Knees and Toes:
Pull the material up or down in line with that body part each time it is sang.
Wheels on the bus:
The wheels on the bus go round and round (hold material with one hand and walk around in a circle)
The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep (two feet together jump/bounce in place)
The door on the bus go open and shut (raise parachute above head and lower parachute by touching toes)
The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish (hold parachute with 2 hands in front of body and move arms from side to side)
The babies on the bus go waa, waa, waa (pretend to wipe eyes with parachute—like a handkerchief
The Parachute Dance Song | Maple Leaf Learning – YouTube
Relaxation
Often before a yoga session or during a cool down we get everyone under the parachute/material lying facing up. We usually turn off the lights and have calming music on. We practice some deep breathing by taking a breath in through our nose as the parachute falls down and breathe out by blowing the parachute away towards the ceiling as it gets lifted up.
Catch
This is a fun game where the young people run or are wheeled under the material and have to avoid being trapped under the parachute as it comes down.
Ball Launch
This can be done with soft toys or rolled up socks instead of balls. The idea is you put all the objects in the middle and everyone takes an end or the material. You then count up or down and launch them all high up into the sky and try and catch as many as you can before they hit the ground.
Physical Education at Home – Parachute Games – YouTube
This is only a selection of the ones we play most so if anyone would like more ideas or would like them adapted to suit an individual child then please get in touch. Take care everyone and enjoy the holidays.
Cheers, Susie.
