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Sleeping Giant

Ages 3–76–8 minutes

Kit

Rugby balls, cones for the home line

Set up

  • Giant in the middle with a pile of balls.
  • Children behind a coned home line.

Play

  1. 1Giant sleeps — creep forward quietly.
  2. 2Pick up one ball.
  3. 3Giant wakes — PAWS/READY!
  4. 4Run the ball safely back home.
  5. 5Reset the balls and go again.

Say

  • “Quiet paws!”
  • “Eyes up!”
  • “Back home!”

Level up

Children carry the ball in two hands and evade a gentle tag on the way home.

30 pups

Two ball piles and two Giants so nobody swarms one spot.

Safety

No diving on the balls.

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