The object of this game is to try to make the ball roll around the edge of the chute. To do this someone starts the ball rolling. As it comes towards you, you lower the edge you are holding, and as it goes past you raise your edge. When all the players do this smoothly, a wave is created that goes round the edge, pushing the ball in a steady circle.
It can not be done without concentration and co-operation! Tip: This game also needs practice and co-operation. When mastered it can be a lot of fun! Place a ball on top of the parachute and have the players roll the ball back and forth to each other. For example, you could tell a specific person to roll the ball to someone that you name.
This game encourages cooperation, as the players will have to work together for the first player to get the ball to their friend. While the players are holding onto the parachute, place several balloons on top of the parachute.
Where are the balloons? Keep repeating this game to see how high you can get the balloons to go, or how far you can get them to travel.
While the players are holding onto the parachute, toss a plastic golf ball onto the parachute. Have the players manuever the parachute to try to get the ball through the hole. When the ball is in the hole, have a caddy go under the parachute to retrieve it and start over. Count the number of waves golf strokes it takes the players to get the ball into the hole. Keep track on a scoreboard. Need several small balls such as plastic balls, tennis balls,or table tennis balls… Put the fleas balls on the parachute and challenge players try to get the fleas to jump higher and higher.
The fleas are successfully taken care of at the end of the game— when they land outside the parachute! Put various sized pompoms in the top of the parachute and try to get them into the middle pocket.
Variety: form teams with different colors of pom-poms and challenge them to see which team can get the most of their color into the middle pocket in an alloted time. Place four to six skipping ropes on the chute. By shaking the chute, the children try to shake them off. Start off on the floor with all children sitting calmly and grasping the parachute-this is a gentle breeze.
Pretend that it starts raining. As it rains have the children stand. All children start shaking the chute as hard as they can to simulate the storm. Always be sure to check the ground underneath the chute. Outdoors, dry grass is the best play surface. Wet grass can be slippery. Before play review parachute rules. Remind children to play safely— to listen to instructions— and not bump heads or run into each other. The thin nylon sacks sold for the storage of sleeping bags work well.
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As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Read the full disclosure here. Everyone stands up and holds the parachute. Place the number cards under the parachute on the floor. Then pick someone to go first. Then shout a number. The child you have picked will quickly dive under the parachute, and get the number and bring it back out to safety. Then pick another child and repeat again. All you need for this is some shapes instead.
They could be 2D shapes or 3D, depending on what you are working on. For this you require some number cards again, or something like rubber discs with numbers on. Put these on the parachute, ideally towards the outer edge and spaced out. Then, with everyone holding the parachute, put a rubber ball onto it. Call out a number, e. The idea is that everyone cooperates to roll the ball onto that number. Then call another number, and everyone helps to steer the ball again by lifting or dropping their bit of the parachute.
If you want to find out even more about parachute games for early maths, then why not check out these 14 fantastic games. Segmenting is quite simply splitting words up into their sounds. For a full guide on what segmenting is, then first check out this. The way to do that with a parachute is this: all stand up in a circle and hold the parachute.
Say a word, e. Top tip — Repeat each word a few times. Repetition is the most important thing for learning how to segment. Quite simply, the adult makes up a story. All the children bring the story to life with sound effects.
For example, they shake the chute up and down when the stamping T-Rex appears. They make gentle waves for the sea. They wiggle when the snake slithers out of its cave. Just make it up, and let them bring it to life! Great for listening, attention, and communication.
Give every child a letter. You could write them on stickers and stick it on them, or they could wear bibs with the letters on. It is good to have at least two children have one sound each. Shout a letter, e. Repeat with different sounds. This is a voice recognition game. Basically you get all children to stand around a parachute and close their eyes. Then the adult goes and taps one child on the shoulder. This is good for listening out for the voices of your friends. It is also an excellent memory game.
Top tip — Make this one harder by getting them to put on a silly voice to disguise who they are. There are many books that have repeated refrains in them — that is, a sentence that repeats over and over. These are great to chant with a parachute, and shake the words as you say them.
What you do is the adult reads the story, and the children shake the parachute and join in with the repeated refrain. I hope you enjoyed these literacy ideas, and if you want to find out the full list of phonics parachute games then take a look at this.
Top tip — Be kind! This game is an absolute old classic. You go around the children and tell them they are each one of four fruits, e. Keep going with this order: apple, banana… until everyone is a fruit. Everyone that is that particular fruit will swap places. Count to three, and then lift the parachute high into the air. Good luck! Get a rubber ball or a sponge ball and put it onto the parachute.
The idea is to roll it around the edge of the parachute. Lower it when it is going away from you. What you do for this is basically split the children up into two teams. Have a central line on the parachute.
Everyone on one side is on one team, and they will be against the other side. The idea is that one team is going to try to roll the ball of the far side of the parachute to them, but that team is going to try to stop them and roll it off the side farthest to them.
To find out similar excellent ball games for young children, check out this guide of 30 brilliant ones to try. Then what you do is all gently jiggle the parachute up and down. The snakes will start moving around, and if any hit each other they stick together! Keep jiggling until all the snakes are stuck together in a big ball! This is a bit like tag with a parachute involved. The way I play it is the following:.
Get one child to sit the in middle underneath the parachute. Everyone holds the chute above their heads. Pick one child to be the mouse. They sneak up on the cat, tap them on the shoulder then run back to where they had stood in the circle. The idea is that they try to run once around the circle and back to their original spot.
The cat is going to chase them! All the cat has to do is tag them on the back, and they are caught. If the mouse gets back in time, then it is safe. Top tip — be gentle if you are the cat! All that is needed is small tap on the back, nothing more. The crawl under the parachute and move around underneath.
Everyone else makes waves on the sea by gently shaking the chute up and down. The idea is that the shark will tap someone on the shoe. When they feel a tap they are the new shark. On the count of three, everyone should raise the handle above their head. If they bring it down to the floor it makes a mushroom shape.
Have them lift it up again, then quickly lower it to the ground behind them. This creates a canopy cover so they are inside the mushroom. Looking for an icebreaker? Make sure everyone holds one handle using both hands. One person calls out information and then everyone lifts the parachute. If it applies to you, you run under the parachute to switch places with someone else before it falls.
This game encourages turn-taking and physical activity. Be sure to remind the participants to play nicely. Everyone else should sit on the ground holding onto the parachute. The mouse crawls under the parachute and moves around. Meanwhile, the cat crawls on top of the parachute searching for the mouse. The others wiggle and wave the parachute to hide the mouse. Adapt this game to be played as a fun gross motor game for toddlers and seniors or play it as a competitive game for older children.
Put soft balls on the parachute. Everyone should stand and hold a handle. Shake the parachute and move it up and down. The balls will look like popcorn popping. Competition Place an even amount of two colors of balls on the parachute.
For example, you could use ten soft, red balls and ten soft, blue balls. Then divide the group into two teams. The red team wants to shake the parachute while keeping the red balls on and popping the blue balls off.
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