Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Reactivation Activities

Rock/Paper/Scissors Tournament

Session Organization:

• Players partner up and play rock/paper/scissors
• The winner goes and finds a new opponent
• Non-winner follows the player that they lost to and becomes their cheering group
• Continue until there are only 2 players left
• Encourage non-playing players to cheer on the leader

Elbow Tag

Equipment Needed:

• Cones if needed to designate a play area
• Play area dependent on size of group

Session Organization:

• Each player needs a partner
• Partners should link arms at the elbows and have both hands on their hips.

• Ask for two volunteers and assign one of them to be it (B) and the other to be the runner (A).
• Demonstrate safe  and unsafe tagging
• Have the players practice how to detach, who becomes the runner and who stays linked at the elbow.

How to Play:

• The player who is “it” (B) must try to tag the “runner’ (A).
• The “runner” must find a pair of students and link arms at the elbow.
• The person on the other side of that pair detaches and is now being chased by the person who is “it”.
• The new runner must then find another pair to link up with, in turn detaching another person.
• If the “runner” gets tagged before linking elbows, the “runner” then becomes “it” and chases the other person.
• If the runner is in for too long the coach says “Switch” and the runner becomes “it”