The PE class parachute day is the best. It’s fascinating to see that parachute floating up and down. Running around a parachute is a great exercise. And working together to keep all the balls parachute during a popcorn game will encourage cooperation. Parachute play is not only fun, but it also teaches the game.
Cooperative skills such as hand eye adjustment, balance, sharing and replacing mobility cores and arm muscles to enhance social interaction and communication listening and response
Parachutes are also comprehensive. Everyone can participate and they are a pleasant sensory experience for many children. All you need to do is get started with some basic supplies like this parachute and ball pitball from Amazon.
Try some of these parachute games with your students.
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1. Mushrooms (classic)
Let’s start with the basic mushrooms. Students hold the end of the parachute and spread it into a ring. The student pulls the taught parachute and lowers it. At the signal they raise their chutes up and they all work together. The goal is to ensure that everyone sits under the parachute at the same time, pulling the parachute behind it to form a mushroom shape.
2. umbrella
Umbrella is a mushroom form, but it’s a great way to reach out but to practice teamwork before students progress into a more advanced parachute game.
3. Make waves
All students hold the parachute and move it up and down to create a wave.
4. Treasures under the sea
Place “treasures” (balls, bean bags, small stuffing) in the box under the parachute. Create waves on top of it, and students are sent as “divers” to collect items.
5. Cat and mouse
Assign the roles of cats and mice to students. When called a “mouse”, the mouse begins to raw under the parachute. When the mouse is under the parachute, it calls it a “cat” and the cat starts raw after the mouse to see if it can tag the mouse. Set the time limits that the cat wants and switch roles.
6. Parachute tag
Have students lift the parachute high. Next, call the name of one student and let the parachute get off and tag it, then tag it, then run to the other side.
7. Jellyfish
The student sat down, swinging a parachute, while the ball rolled underneath it. Students then sit under the parachute and send the ball back.
8. Climbing the mountain
Students work together to create a “mountain” from parachutes, and then other students try to steadily climb the mountain by holding the mountain.
9. One hand running
Each student holds a parachute with one hand and stretches the other hand for balance. Students run clockwise in one direction, then change hands and run in another direction. Use music to encourage students to change direction.
10. Popcorn
Place the ball on the parachute and swing it so that it looks like popcorn is coming out. Start with a few balls and add more and more!
11. Parachute switch
Use a large parachute to have the student hold the end of the parachute. Number each student and have a repetitive number (so if you have 20 students, there are two for each number, so there are 1-10 students). Then call the number and let the students with that number run under the parachute.
12. Parachute tug of war
Divide students into two teams. Ask the team to stand on either side of the parachute and hold it. Each team must try to pull the other team towards their side.
13. Songs on a windy day
Use this song to warm up students and use parachutes with younger students.
14. Merry-go-round
Have students hold a parachute with one hand and jump into, skip, or turn into a circle. The result looks like a merry-go-round.
15. Turtle Walk
Innate movement
Have students have even spaces and hold the edges of the parachute. The goal is to ensure that students enter the parachute and look like a turtle shell. After that, once they take shape, they try to walk and move the parachute like a turtle shell.
16. Turtle Race
If you have two parachutes and enough students, split them into two groups, create two turtles, then race as a parachute turtle.
17. ParachuteTwister
Use a parachute as a twister board and call out activities that students do while reaching for one color and holding their feet in another color.
18. Shoe shuffle
Assign student numbers 1-6. One child throws his shoes in the middle. Lift the parachute and let the students retrieve their shoes. Next, repeat the steps with numbers 2, 3, etc.
19. 24-hour parachute dance
Students will hold parachutes and dance clockwise, counterclockwise, rearward and forward, depending on the direction. You can play music and move it to the tempo to make it even more challenging.
20. Throw the fleas
Hold the parachute. Place all the balls (chips) in the center of the parachute. Divide students into teams. The goal is for one team to throw fleas and the other team to not bring fleas.
twenty one. Crocodile
The students lay on their backs and placed their parachutes on them, holding them tightly. They then slowly crawl with parachutes on top of them.
twenty two. ParachuteKeepy-Uppy
Student holds the end of a parachute. When a beach ball is thrown into a parachute, students must cooperate to prevent the ball from bouncing back.
twenty three. Under the bridge
The student stands at the edge of the parachute and grabs the edge. One student is a judge, and they randomly call names (or have them draw the student’s name and draw the stick). When students’ names are called, they must either cross the bridge or go under the parachute. The rest of the students try to catch a passing student by knocking down a parachute.
twenty four. The man in the middle
Sharon and Sharin
Students sit in the middle of the parachute, while other students move the parachute to create waves around them.
twenty five. Weather Observation Station
Students spread evenly around the parachute. One child is a weather reporter. The weather reporter calls out what kind of weather it is. Break breeze, wind, storm, tornado (running around), hail (added ball). Ask students to create other types of weather movements.
26. Color Quiz
Place the parachute on a flat surface. Students are standing around a parachute. Teachers will present the colours and students will need to identify the colours of the parachute. Students can run, jump and lift to colour.
27. handshake
Assign a number to each student. The student lifts the parachute, and the teacher calls two random numbers. Students with those numbers run in the middle and shake hands. You can also introduce yourself along the way.
28. Number switch
Backyard games
Ask students to sit or stand around a parachute. Assign a number to each player. The teacher calls the number and these two students switch spots by running under the parachute.
29. Fruit salad
Students grab a parachute. Teachers assign each student the fruit name (for example, Apple, Grape, Pear, Berry, etc.). Make sure each fruit is assigned to two players. Students move the parachute up and down. The teacher calls the fruit’s name, and when their fruit is called, the student crosses under the parachute.
30. Row the boat
Students hold parachutes and sit in circles. Working together, they pull back and forth, move back and forth, moving back and forth, moving abdominal muscles.
31. Starting the rocket
Place the ball in the middle of the parachute and see how the child can send it.
32. Shark attack
Students rescue other children with sharks who are running their parachutes.
33. Ducks, ducks, goose
While Goose students tap on the duck student, students grip the parachute and move it. They have to sit and run all the way around the parachute, untagged.
34. NASCAR
Students lift the parachute, then three students at a time run around the circle as quickly as possible. The goal is to return to their location before the parachutes descend.
35. Parachute volleyball
If you have small parachutes, play volleyball using parachutes and a large beach ball on the net. Alternatively, if you have a large parachute and one beach ball, divide the students into two teams. One team is on either side of the parachute and tries to knock the ball from the other side.
36. Parachute golf
Throw the ball into the middle of the parachute and have the students swing it so they can count the number of shaking that the ball will take to pass through the hole.
37. Mad Scientist
One child is standing in the middle of a parachute, his head touching the cloth. Other students pull the parachute back and forth over the student’s hair. A great introduction to static electricity!
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