These are a few more
Run around & circle games - no resources
What's the time Mr Wolf
Lets be beans
Head shoulder knees and toes
Dingle dangle scarecrow
If you're happy and you know it
Grand old Duke of York - marching
Hokey cokey
Ring o roses
Please Mr Crocodile may I cross your river. to see some friends that are building us a den. 'Only if you're wearing the colour ??'
traditional version
Movements: star jumps, hops, jumps, spot running, touch toes
Link the above to a 'preschool mascot/toy' says game
- simon says
Cheese and tomato sandwiches: all children choose if they want to be cheese or a tomato. All walk randomly around the room until a leader calls stop. All children call out what they choose to be and identify an opposite to pair up with becoming a sandwich. Together the sandwich now chooses whether they are cheese or tomato and then begin walking around holding hands/batons until the lead again calls stop .. the sandwiches call out what they choose to be - tomato/cheese and pair up with an opposite.. game continues until everyone has joined or children choose the same ingredient where the immediate game ends, everyone separates and it all starts over ..
The group sizes can be named ..
Dough balls
Sandwiches
Bagels
Bagette
Loaf
morgenbrød
and the ingredients can change to reflect a theme or learning focus.. fruits, vegetables, spreads ..
Games with resources
Hot potato or prickly thistle - play with balloons or other resource
Statues
Catch the sock, guess what's inside - have 4+ socks to pass around
String balancing - lay string on the floor, play jungle vine tracking: monkey card = stop and make ooo ooo sounds & monkey actions, tiger card roooar, snake card ..
Hopscotch
Ball and hoop activities - roll, kick, throw, catch, score
Mats for rolling forward rolypoly, body barrel roll
sideways and backwards?
Exercise balls
Tunnel race - have a pick up & drop off buckets with the tunnel in the middle add balls/bean bags/other resource to collect & return.
Ribbon sticks
Beanbag balance - head, on back of hands, on feet
Rabbit rabbit who has your carrot: request a child to be a rabbit, sit on a chair and cover eyes. Request another child to take the carrot - car cutout/real veg and all to sit on floor. When ready, rabbit removes hands from eyes and everyone calls out 'rabbit, rabbit who has your carrot?' rabbit selects each child in turn who stands, gives a body wiggle and sits again until the carrot owner is revealed .. they then become the next rabbit ..
Cup and paper ball catch
Racquets & bats
Pass the hat - circle game with a central chair for the hat wearer to sit. Everyone chants, 'xx has the hat, it's tall and round with a big black rim xx has the hat, take it off and pass it on who will be the next' .. child chooses another and if possible says their name, selected child takes hat, sits in the circle middle, puts the hat on, everyone chants ..
Musical name chairs - attach children's names to individual chairs and when the music stops must find their name to claim the chair. No child out. Before each new round switch the names to refresh theie positioning.
List of traditional games
You extend individual children's learning by knowing what they are already covering, the resources and activities they currently have access to and then exploring different concepts with them .. the sheet as mentioned above can be used in a follow my leader game or with sticks to hold it up a dragon dance structured games are nicely complimented with an unstructured game resource