May Monthly Action Idea
Active Play EVERY Day

Increase physical movement through the day in every way. Choose things you LIKE to do for at least 60 minutes of active time most days.

 

2009 Dance for Health Winners

2009 Dance for Health Winners -Wichita County Junior High Kids Learn Dance Steps

Activity Idea: Money Machine
   
Source: Adapted from the HKC Acting Up booklet
Description: Kids take money out of the bank while performing physical movement and practice money counting skills.
Grade: 1-3
Supplies:
  • different colored bean bags (or index cards)
  • paper and pencils (or dry erase boards and markers)
  • Hula Hoops (or box) for bean bags

Directions:

  1. Prior to the activity, assign each bean bag a monetary value.
  2. To begin, spread all the bean bags throughout the middle of the playing area. (This is the bank.)
  3. Divide kids into groups, giving each group a pencil and paper and a Hula Hoop. (This is their bank account.)
  4. Instruct kids that on signal,
    • one player from each group uses a motor skill ( i.e. skipping) to move into the bank and retrieve a bean bag.
    • players return to their group and place the bean bag in their bank account.
    • the next player moves into the bank repeating the above motor skill.
  5. Activity continues until all the money from the bank is gone.
  6. Instruct kids to use paper and pencil or dry erase board/marker to total the money they have in their bank account.

Option: Increasing the monetary value of the bean bags makes the activity more challenging for upper level kids.

This activity is found on page 27 of the Acting Up booklet. For more activity ideas like the one above, check out HKC resource materials. See the Online Store for descriptors and to view the Table of Content and booklet sample pages.