🐦🦈 Storks and Sharks 🎾

🎯 Objective:
A fun movement and coordination game developing balance, carrying skills, spatial awareness, and confidence while introducing playful pressure and decision-making.

🧠 Focus:
Balance • coordination • agility • awareness • carrying objects while moving

⏱️ Duration:
5–7 minutes (including demonstration)

🎤 Coach Script / Story Setup:

“Alright Storks! 🐦 You’ve got a very important job today.
Your baby eggs need to get safely across the ocean and into their nests on the island 🌴
But watch out… there are SHARKS in the sea! 🦈
If you drop your egg, the sharks might gobble it up!”

🏗️ Game Layout:

Set up the area in three clear zones:

1. 🟡 Beach Front
   • A straight line of yellow cones
   • Starting point for all storks

2. 🔵 The Sea
   • Marked with blue traffic cones scattered or in lanes
   • This is the danger zone

3. 🟢 The Island
   • A circle of green cones
   • Inside the circle place:

• Buckets / tubs = nests

Equipment needed:
• Beanbags = eggs 🥚
• Cones (yellow, blue, green)
• Buckets / tubs
• Rackets (for sharks’ fins)

🔁 Gameplay:

1. Each child (a Stork) starts at the beach holding one egg (beanbag).

2. On the coach’s signal, storks carefully travel across the sea.

3. They must:
   • Keep control of the egg
   • Avoid dropping it

4. Once they reach the island:
   • Gently drop the egg into a nest

5. Storks then:
   • Run back around the outside to the beach
   • Collect another egg

Sharks (coaches):
• Move around the sea zone
• Hold rackets above their heads like shark fins
• If an egg is dropped:

• The shark “gobbles” it

• Returns it to the beach supply

Play continues for a set time or until all eggs are safely delivered.

🪶 Feathers (Simplifications for Younger or Nervous Children):

• Allow walking only — no running
• Let children carry the egg with two hands
• Reduce the width of the sea
• Allow coaches to freeze while storks cross
• Use larger, softer beanbags
• Storks can step around cones instead of between them

⚡ Progressions (For Older or More Confident Groups):

• Carry the egg:

• Change the beanbags to balls

•     Add movement challenges:

• Tip-toe across the sea

• Side steps or zig-zags
  • Sharks move slowly side-to-side
  • Storks must freeze if a shark looks at them
  • Add a time challenge:

• “How many eggs can your team save in 1 minute?”
  • Introduce teamwork:

• One stork carries, one stork guides

🎾 Coaching Tips:

• Encourage:

• “Slow and steady”

• “Eyes on the egg”

• “Soft hands”
  • Praise balance and control, not speed
  • Reinforce spatial awareness:

• Looking up

• Avoiding cones and sharks

🌈 Seasonal & Themed Variations:

🎄 Christmas – Storks and Snow Sharks

Eggs become snowballs ❄️
The island is Santa’s snowy nest.
Sharks wear festive hats and guard the icy sea.

🐣 Easter – Bunny Helpers

Eggs are Easter eggs 🥚
Island nests belong to the Easter Bunny 🐰
Sharks become cheeky foxes trying to steal eggs.

🎃 Halloween – Witches and Sea Monsters

Eggs are magic potions 🧪
Island is the Witch’s Island
Sharks become sea monsters with spooky movements 👻

💘 Valentine’s – Love Birds

Eggs are hearts ❤️
Island nests are love nests
Sharks try to “steal the love”

👩‍👧 Mother’s Day – Baby Birds

Eggs are baby chicks 🐥
Island is Mum’s nest
Emphasis on gentle movement and care

👨‍👧 Father’s Day – Strong Storks

Eggs are “important packages” 📦
Island is Dad’s workshop
Sharks are clumsy builders trying to block the way 🛠️