Rainy Day Fun

 Even though the weather didn’t cooperate, we were so proud of our Hollister students who did! What a fantastic SBFitKidz Day! ~Andra

SBFitKidz Rainy Day Fun

By Shayna Sneiderman, SBFitKidz Intern, UCSB Student

Last week at Hollister School we had a great rainy day full of activity! We were inside in order to stay dry, but were able to run around and stay active the entire time. We began the session learning about heart rates and pacing. We ran around for a few minutes experimenting with the “talk test”. If you are able to still hold a conversation while running at this pace you should be able to maintain that pace for a long time. After running we stopped to feel our pulse and where our heart rate was. Some of the sports we came up with that require you to maintain a steady pace for a while were running and swimming.

After a water break we played junk food tag. Everyone picked a healthy food to be, and the two people who were ‘it’ picked junk foods. The junk foods ran around with scarves and tried to tag the healthy food while the healthy food had to run away from junk food! It was so much fun we did a few rounds of it.

After tag we played another fun game called goldmine. We divided into two teams. The room was divided in half, one half for each team. On opposite ends of the room were two hula-hoops each with eight tennis balls inside that we referred to as ‘gold’. The point of the game was to steal the other teams gold without being tagged. We came up with team names and worked together to get as many gold pieces as we could. Everyone had such a great time with this game we ran out of time to do our last activity, which would have been a food pyramid of Thanksgiving foods. We had so much fun today, can’t wait for next week!

Looking for some fun activities like these? Visit the “Activities” section on our website!

http://www.sbfitkidz.com/activities.shtml