Acro Masterclass

When you are tagged, you put your arms up in the air. To get free again you have to do an acro trick together with the person who wants to free you. After that you can come back to the game. The tagger is allowed to tag the people who are already doing the acro.

Acro movements: sitting chair, standing chair, standing on dog.

The flies are walking around on their hands and feets facing the floor. The tagger is a spider walking on hands and feet facing the ceiling. When you are tagged, you become a spider.

Variations:

– Other animals: frog, monkey (low cart wheel)

– Walking backwards, constant turning

– Making the sound of the animal

– When tagged: the persons who wants to free the tagged one rolls over his back

Make pairs. All start at one line, the end is at another line. The bases in on hands and knees (horse). The other one going to lie on top of the back, back to back and grabs the hips. Now the goal is to go to the other line as fast as possible. When you drop of the base, you have to start from the beginning.

Variations:

– without hands

– legs straight up

– standing on the horse

– change partners, change base/flyer

– 3 persons: 2 bases – thin mat – 1 flyer (also possible with 5 persons, 2 mats)

 Also check this video.

Make pairs. You choose certain movements the pairs have to make.

– peeing dog: 1 peeing dog and 1 standing straight with arms high as a tree

– busstop: 1 dog/horse/lion en 1 sitting on top of it

– London bus: hands and feet with stomach to ceiling, 1 on top of it the same way

– monkey and tree: 1 tree and the other one is hanging in/on the tree

– hotdog: 1 lying on the ground, shoulders and feet from the ground. The other one standing like doing a push up, 90 degrees, so over the other person.

– surfer: 1 lying on the stomach, the other one standing on top of that as a surfer

Each pair has a number 1 and 2. Numbers 1 are running in a small circle in the middle. The numbers 2 are running in a bigger circle in the other direction. When the teacher shouts an move (hotdog!) than you have to find your own partner as soon as possible and make the move. The last one standing has to do 10 push ups before getting back in the game.

Variations:

– you can also choose more acrobatic tricks

– clock tower: making a handstand and the other one lift it and shakes it a little left and richt

– clap: when the teacher makes a clap, the pairs have to change inner and outer circle

– quicker or in slow motion running

– backwards

– giving high fives during the running

– dancing around until the music stops and than make the move

– with points for who’s doing it the prettiest, make the nicest sound or something like that.

And don’t forget to check this video!

One person (could be the teacher) is counting down from 10 to 0. All students must touch the counting person and make a trick the teacher gives (single or in pairs like the London bus). You can give points for who does the nicest one. The one counting can also walk around to make it harder. Because after counting from 10 to 0, you count from 9 to 0, and so on.

Variations:

– slow motion, bouncing, turning.

– now the students have to go as far away as possible from the person who counts. Because when the counting is done he can make 3 steps and tag someone. It can also be 3 steps in movements likes a cartwheel to have a bigger reach. Also the persons who are being tagged can help the counter by lifting him so he doesn’t have to make a step so quickly.

Three crocodiles: take the position like how you start right before a push up (feet and hands on the ground, face towards the floor). Before the start of the game the crocodiles are asleep and everybody has to touch 1 crocodile. When the crocodiles wakes up the can start tagging. When being tagged, you are also a crocodile.

Variations:

– for younger children you can also make an easier animal

– also with making the sound of the animal

– form one line to another. They have to cross the crocodile sea. Also possible that the runners have to cross as an animal.

When you are tagged you become an ingredient of the dame blanche and say the name of the ingredient constantly.

1: ice cream: lying on the ground on your back
2: chocolate sauce: dog/lion/horse over the ice cream
3: whipped cream: sitting on top of the dog
4: spoon: standing on the chair/whipped cream

If the figure is complete you all have to say ‘dame blanche’ 3 times and then you are all free again.

You have to work together so that there are not only ice creams.

Variations:

– make it bigger: cherry, etc.

One is the traveller. He/she has to go to the other side of the working space.
The others must help him with this, catch him, carry him, etc. 

Make pairs. Two dogs/lions/tables are facing each other. One stays static and the other one tries to push the static one so he/she rolls over. The static one has to prevent that. Don’t use the arms.

Variations:

– bigger groups

– both are moving

– use of arms

– as a robot (so when rolling, don’t change body figure)

– shoulder and knee against each other

– as a rock/stone/turtle, as little as possible

– turtle/as little as possible and the other one wants to make the turtle bigger by opening a arm, than a leg, etc.

Check this video!

– other way around: start as big as possible and make everything bend

Work in pairs. Make a playing board on a paper and you need a rolling dice with numbers from 1 to 6. You move according to the number you rolled with the dice.

You can roll all at the same time or wait for each other. You can fill the board with figures of acrobatics and sentences like: wait one round, 3 back, 2 forward, change partner.

Variations:

– twister: each colour has their own movement

– twister with somebody on your back

One big sheet of paper with movements. For example: 500 push up, talking against the wall, constant handstand, juggling.

The whole group has the task to make sure each movement is happening during the time of the game. They can take turns. Somebody can do 10 push ups, and then somebody else continues. The whole group is responsible. Take a certain time for the game beforehand.

Thick mat and two groups who can’t see each other because the mat is up. Make two teams with 5 persons are fine, can be bigger or smaller. Third team can give the movements (like: make an airplane) from the side.

The mat is to make sure the two groups don’t copy each other. Ten seconds to make the movement/pyramid.

– as high as possible
– X hands on the ground and X knees
– make an airplane

Variations:

– make noise when you are ready, who is first

– ‘loser’ can make the pyramid of the winner

– one team gets a tricks and 10 seconds to build it. Remove mat/wall for 5 seconds for the other team to see the result. Put back the wall back up and have the other team to build the same figure.

– Without a mat, just looking in the other direction

 Also check this video!

Team A picks a card and has to build a figure (hamburger, car, house). Team B has to guess what it is.

There are 2 thick mats standing. One person is in the middle and two others on either side.

They all make a movement (1=lying down, 2=lion, 3=standing on 1 foot).

The other people have to make a group figure in which all 3 movements of the 3 people between the mats are in.