Social Skills: Games and Activities Resource List

School-Age Social & Emotional Development Lesson 4 Learn Social Skills: Games and Activities Resource List Guide	WWW.VIRTUALLABSCHOOL.ORG ACTIVITY ID: 21936 Name Certifier Date
Review the resources and activities for ideas to implement within your school-age program. Teambuilding Activities: Unicef Kid Power Learn about classic team-building activities for kids, including indoor and outdoor games, such as group jump rope; traffic lights, forehead dots; birthday line up; trust walk; fingertip hula hoop and more. Play Works This play-friendly site lets you search () games by type of game, number of participants, ages, equipment needed and time needed to play. Team building games include the hula-hoop challenge; ball toss race; over under relay; ants on a log, blindfold building; alligator swamp; and more. Other Activites: Imagineers: Create magical sets where kids can use their imagination to act out scenes and play games. Ideas include searching for buried treasure on a deserted island, traveling through the jungle, or even flying through outer space. Kids’ Karaoke: Kids can enjoy an afternoon of Karaoke; use Disney Sing It for the Wii Karaoke game. Lego Camp/Club: Let kids have free build time or suggest specific things to build related to a book or subject of your choosing. It could be a competition or just for fun! Members break down the Lego bricks and help clean up. Game Day: Invite children to bring a board game to share and gather with others to play. Trivia Challenge: You choose the subject and help children choose their teams. Write questions about favorite books, local facts, sports teams, favorite television shows, etc. Wii/Just Dance: This is a great way to bring kids together for some friendly competition. Digital Scavenger Hunt: Divide the group into teams with a phone that is capable of taking digital photographs. Then send each team into the outdoor play area with a list of items of which they need to find and take photos. Examples include a red brick, a bird, something I like that is green, etc. After each of the items on the list has been photographed, team members come back and share their findings. Me Too: Divide the children into two different groups. Have the groups form lines, so that the groups are looking at each other. The moderator will make a series of statements, and each child must step forward for every statement that is true for him or her. Possible questions include: I am the oldest/youngest sibling in my family, I like to eat fruits and vegetables, I can hold my breath for sixty seconds, I sing in the shower, I think it would be fun to be famous, I’m a good cook, etc.

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Review the resources and activities for ideas to implement within your school-age program.

Teambuilding Activities:

Unicef Kid Power

Learn about classic team-building activities for kids, including indoor and outdoor games, such as group jump rope; traffic lights, forehead dots; birthday line up; trust walk; fingertip hula hoop and more.

Play Works

This play-friendly site lets you search () games by type of game, number of participants, ages, equipment needed and time needed to play. Team building games include the hula-hoop challenge; ball toss race; over under relay; ants on a log, blindfold building; alligator swamp; and more.

Other Activites:

Imagineers: Create magical sets where kids can use their imagination to act out scenes and play games. Ideas include searching for buried treasure on a deserted island, traveling through the jungle, or even flying through outer space.
Kids’ Karaoke: Kids can enjoy an afternoon of Karaoke; use Disney Sing It for the Wii Karaoke game.
Lego Camp/Club: Let kids have free build time or suggest specific things to build related to a book or subject of your choosing. It could be a competition or just for fun! Members break down the Lego bricks and help clean up.
Game Day: Invite children to bring a board game to share and gather with others to play.
Trivia Challenge: You choose the subject and help children choose their teams. Write questions about favorite books, local facts, sports teams, favorite television shows, etc.
Wii/Just Dance: This is a great way to bring kids together for some friendly competition.
Digital Scavenger Hunt: Divide the group into teams with a phone that is capable of taking digital photographs. Then send each team into the outdoor play area with a list of items of which they need to find and take photos. Examples include a red brick, a bird, something I like that is green, etc. After each of the items on the list has been photographed, team members come back and share their findings.
Me Too: Divide the children into two different groups. Have the groups form lines, so that the groups are looking at each other. The moderator will make a series of statements, and each child must step forward for every statement that is true for him or her. Possible questions include: I am the oldest/youngest sibling in my family, I like to eat fruits and vegetables, I can hold my breath for sixty seconds, I sing in the shower, I think it would be fun to be famous, I’m a good cook, etc.

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