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REP Game of the Month: Fruit Salad

September 29, 2017

Keep kids moving, and let them show off their silly sides with our Recess Enhancement Program’s (REP) game of the month, Fruit Salad.

 

Fruit Salad

Who: Grades kindergarten to 5

Players: 20+

Time: 15 minutes+

Where: Small playground

 

How to Play:

  • Form a large circle and sit down! Each player is assigned one of the following fruits: bananas, grapes, oranges, apples, pears.
  • The facilitator will stand in the middle of the circle and call out one of the fruits. 
  • All players who are assigned that fruit will stand up, run around the circle, and sit down in their original spot.
  • The last player to make it back to his or her spot will do a silly dance or exercise in the middle of the cirlce for five seconds. 
  • When the facilitator shouts “fruit salad,” all players must run around the circle and return to their spot.

 

Conflict-Resolution Tip:

  • Allow the student who is last to call out the next fruit. 

 

PLAY: REP IT OUT

EASY: Power walk around the circle.

MEDIUM: Side shuffle around the circle.

HARD: Crab walk around the circle.

 

Check out more active recess games from Asphalt Green’s REP team: