Sandwich Shop 🥪
🎯 A creative game focused on balance, control, coordination, colour matching, and fun!
🎤 Coach Script / Introduction
“Who’s hungry? 🍞 Welcome to the Tennis Tots Sandwich Shop! Today you’re not just tennis players — you're chefs!
Your job is to make a sandwich, carry it carefully to the customer, and drop it into the right delivery bag!”
Sit the children down at one end of the hall near the “ingredients” area and demonstrate.
🧺 Game Setup
Scatter soft balls and beanbags in a long line (the “ingredients”).
Ingredients are grouped or colour-coded:
🟡 Cheese = yellow
🔴 Tomato = red
🔵 Blueberry jam = blue
🟢 Salad = green
🟣 Grapes = purple (optional)
Children use two rackets to clamp together 1–3 “ingredients” (beanbags/balls).
Set out “delivery bags” (buckets, cones, hoops, etc.) at the opposite end of the space, each colour-coded to match the sandwich fillings.
🚚 How to Play
1. Build your sandwich using two rackets to scoop and hold the filling(s).
2. Carry the sandwich across the hall to the serving area (large cones/line).
3. Drop the filling into the correctly coloured delivery bag — try to keep the sandwich together until you reach the bag!
4. Return to the start and repeat.
🪶 Feathers (Simplify for Under 3s / Beginners)
Use beanbags only (easier to balance and colour-code).
Allow them to carry with hands or just one racket.
Try making a burrito with a folded drop-down dot over a beanbag if the rackets are difficult to control
Set the delivery bags much closer.
Use cones on their side instead of upright bags to drop into.
Let adults/assistants help “build” the sandwich.
⚡️ Progressions (Older / Confident Children)
Introduce foam balls as sandwich fillings (harder to balance).
Encourage building sandwiches with multiple ingredients.
Add a challenge zone:
Move the bags further away so children must fling the sandwich contents (not the rackets!) by opening their rackets in a coordinated movement.
Introduce a relay format or team competition:
How many sandwiches can you deliver in 2 minutes?
Use racket hand only, or alternate hands each round.
🎾 Coaching Tips
Emphasise control: soft, steady hands on the rackets.
Demonstrate how to clamp and release evenly — both rackets open together.
Reinforce matching skills: talk through colours, food names, and what makes a “complete” sandwich.
For older players, challenge them to balance while walking heel-to-toe or on lines for added focus.
Seasonal variations for the 🥪 Sandwich Shop game — each version adds a themed twist while preserving the original structure of carrying and delivering “sandwiches” using rackets or alternatives:
🎄 Christmas – Christmas Dinner Dash
Children are delivering Christmas dinners to Santa’s elves! Replace fillings with festive items like turkey (brown ball), sprouts (green beanbag), cranberry sauce (red cone), and roasties (yellow ball). Sandwiches are still held between rackets, and delivery cones are labelled with elf names or "North Pole Mail." Kids must carry their Christmas sandwich to the matching colour cone or “chimney.”
🐣 Easter – Easter Picnic Drop-Off
Children are delivering picnic snacks to baby bunnies! Fill sandwiches with chocolate eggs (foil balls or beanbags), carrots (orange cones), or lettuce (green cones), and walk them to baskets (upturned cones or tubs). Add “bunny hops” before delivering to make it fun! Use burritos (drop-down dots with beanbags inside) for younger ones.
🎃 Halloween – Monster Meal Delivery
Children are chefs delivering spooky sandwiches to hungry monsters! Fill with monster eyeballs (white balls), slime (green beanbags), or bat wings (black cones). Carry your sandwich across the haunted hall and drop it into monster mouths (cones with faces drawn on). You can decorate the rackets with cobweb stickers too.
❤️ Valentine’s Day – Love Letter Lunches
Kids deliver “heart sandwiches” full of love to their secret admirers 💌. Fillings might be hearts (red/pink cones or beanbags), and the delivery zones are mailboxes or cones with Valentine messages. Encourage whispering a kind message before dropping their sandwich. Bonus: Let them decorate their rackets with heart stickers.
👩👧 Mother’s Day – Mum’s Breakfast in Bed
Kids build Mum a lovely breakfast sandwich with toast (yellow cones), jam (red), and tea bags (brown beanbags). Gently walk the sandwich to “Mum’s bed” (pink delivery cone) without dropping it. Use burritos as an easier alternative for younger players.
👨👦 Father’s Day – Dad’s Mega Sandwich
Kids make a supersized sandwich with strong fillings like sausages (brown balls), mustard (yellow beanbags), or tools (grey cones!) and deliver to the “Dad Zone.” Use cones with ties or moustaches drawn on. For older kids, move the delivery zones further back and challenge them to throw the filling — not the rackets!