Activity:         Wagon Relay:  children run a relay race using wagons.

Skills:              cooperation, taking turns, playing by rules

Materials:       wagons, cones

Procedure:

1. Do a quick warm up activity to get the children focused and listening to you.
2. Line up 3 wagons. You will need 3 children per wagon team.
3. Call out 3 children and have them stand behind a wagon they will push.
4. Call out 3 more children to sit in the wagon.
5. Call 3 children to pull the wagons.
6. Tell children they must work together to get the wagon through the course (i.e. around a tree or cones) and back. Remind the children if one of their teammates falls, you must wait for them. "Go slowly and look out for your friends."
7. Teacher announces, "Ready. Set. Go!"
8. When the children are back have them switch places so that at the end of the game they have all had a turn to: 1) push, 2) pull, and 3) sit in the wagon.

Variations:

1. Play with partners one pushing, one sitting.
2. After playing several times, over a few days, have groups of 3 children figure out positions (instead of the teacher assigning places).
3. Have the race include 3 times through the course, but each player must push, pull and sit only once.

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