Adventure Journey

Set up

• Use an open safe area with cones marking the edges if helpful.
• Children spread out with enough room to move in their own space.
• Coach stands centrally and introduces an imaginary adventure — jungle, under the sea, beach, zoo or farm.

How to play

1. Tell the children where the adventure is going.
2. Ask them HOW we should travel there.
3. Let children suggest the transport — aeroplane, train, boat, running, hopping.
4. Everyone copies the chosen movement.
5. Arrive at the destination.
6. Ask what animals or things they can see.
7. Children copy those movements — monkeys, elephants, snakes, lions.
8. Continue through several short adventure moments, then call PAWS/READY.

Coach cues

• “Show me how we travel!”
• “What can you see?”
• “Find your own safe space.”

Early Years 3–5

Allow lots of imagination and child-led ideas. Use large exaggerated movements and keep instructions extremely short.

KS1 5–7

Add movement challenges: change direction, faster and slower, balance, jump, react to signals.

Safety

• Children keep their eyes up.
• Maintain personal space.
• Avoid uncontrolled sprinting.