Objective
By playing with hula hoops, the children practise coordination skills and locomotor skills. The children also challenge their creativity by finding new ways to play with hula hoops.
Instructions
Examples of hula hoop tasks for the children:
- Can you balance on the hula hoop when it’s on the ground?
- Can you run around the hula hoop?
- Can you jump inside and then jump backwards out of the hula hoop?
- Can you roll the hula hoop and race with it?
- Can you use the hula hoop as a skipping rope?
- Can you throw the hula hoop in the air and catch it?
- Can you roll the hula hoop and try to crawl through it while it’s moving?
- Can you turn the hula hoop around your arm?
- Can you throw the hula hoop over a cone?
- Can you use your foot to flip the hula hoop?
- Can you put various parts of your body inside the hula hoop? The adult, for example, says two feet and a hand, two hands and a foot, your forehead…
Variation
- Hula hoop exercises in pairs:
- Can you roll the hula hoop to each other?
- Can you throw the hula hoop to each other without touching the ground?
- Can you roll the hula hoop and try to jump through it once before it hits the ground?
- One of the partners stands inside the hoop and the other holds the hoop in a horizontal position. Can you move around the room without the partner inside the hoop touching the hoop?
- Can you keep the hula hoop off the ground between your bodies?
Equipment
A hula hoop for each child