Steal Easter Eggs: A Running and Tag Game for Easter in Physical Education Class

Stealing Easter eggs is a game for physical education in which two teams steal Easter eggs from each other's Easter nests. The Easter eggs are balls in hoops: the learners can steal them from the opposing half and bring them across the center line into their own nest. The other team tries to tag them in their half. No one can be tagged on the mats, which serve as hiding places. Anyone who is tagged must stand still until a teammate frees them. At the end, the team with more Easter eggs in its Easter nests wins.

This is included in the material

• Game instructions with a layout sketch of the sports hall and all the rules for stealing, tagging, and defending the Easter eggs
• Variations for hiding places, game equipment, court size, and dealing with tagged people

Tips for using the material

• Adapt the rules together: All the game rules can be changed flexibly and creatively, also together with the class.
• Other Easter eggs: Instead of balls, cones, medicine balls, hoops, bottles, or other objects can be used. If both teams have different balls, such as basketballs and volleyballs, two identical balls may never lie in one hoop.
• Limit hiding places: At most two people are allowed on the small mats, and any number on the soft floor mats.
• On one half of the hall the game can be played with small mats instead of soft floor mats or without mats at all.
• Multiple Easter eggs: It can also be allowed to steal several Easter eggs at the same time.
• Tagged people can stand with their legs wide apart or go into a "prison" made of small mats, from which a teammate frees them; the prison is more suitable for primary and lower secondary school.
• Pool noodles as arm extensions are suitable if people in the group have a physical impairment.

These competencies are promoted

• Running and catching when stealing the Easter eggs and tagging in their own half of the court
• Teamwork when freeing tagged teammates and defending the Easter nests
• Tactical action when using the hiding places and attacking and defending at the same time

Organizational notes

For the game, you need soft floor mats, small mats, balls, hoops, and cones. The soft floor mats are placed at the ends of the hall against the wall, and the cones mark the center line along the edge of the court.

You can find more ideas in the games for physical education, the team game, and the Easter running game.