Name of Game: Match Stick Pull

Developmental Domain:

• Physical - the players use their hands to try pull the match stick, using fine motor skills

• Emotional - the players understand that they have to do the best out of 3 to win

• Cognitive - the players will think how they’re going to win (when do I pull the stick? How hard should I pull?)

Overview: In this game 2 players will try to pull the match stick towards them. Whoever pulls the stick 2 times out of 3 will win the game.

Materials needed: Match stick (if none available, use toothpicks or q-tips as alternative)

Material Preparation: Have a box of match sticks, toothpicks or q-tips ready to use

Step by step instructions:

• Have 2 players stand across each other within arms reach

• Clasp hands together with index (pointers) facing out

• Players hold the same match stick between their index fingers

Closing: The game ends when one player pulls the stick 2 times out of 3. Throw out the match stick in garbage once done using.

In this activity, children will learn how to hop on one foot. It becomes competitive with other children. Therefore, this is can be an emotional and social developmental domain.

This activity does not require any materials.

Activity steps:

1. Set up a start line.

2. Have each child start on the start line.

3. Each child will stand on one leg. Put the leg that is in the air behind your knee you they are standing on.

4. Bend half way down, all doing step 3.

5. Start hopping forward.

6. Remember, their hops must be continuous. The participant that goes the furthest is the winner.

This game includes physical, emotional and social developmental domains.

Overview: in this game, children will sit on chair and get block and try to put it in front of them and see how far they’ll drop the block.

Material: chair, block

Material preparation: set chair down, put block on the back leg of chair.

Step by step of activity: Reach block with hand and reach forward to get block. When you have the block try place the block in front of you to see how far you’ll place it down.

Closing: Give everyone a round of applause and pun away chair and block.

Physical, Social, Emotional, Language.

Materials needed are Number, Letter, coloured blocks

Step by step is start with blank, coloured numbers

Lay them on the carpet or floor from 1 to 10

Can start by counting them from 1 to 10 the blocks can be numbers with different colours on the number for example is number 1 can be orange colour, 2 maybe blue colour and so on. Mix the numbers and start counting from 1 to 10. That way and child can see different colours are with different numbers. The child is learning to count from 1 to 10 good for their memories, also learning the colours like red, blue and so on. Thinking, memory, memory is happy, excited or sad.

Development domains:

Are physical social and strength.

In this activity you sit across each other.legs locked in and start pulling.

This activity does not need any material.

Activity steps:

Each child sits across each other, leg locked in legs. Whoever pulls on the side is the winner

By Harriet Amitnaaq

Developmental Domain: Physical and Emotional

The kids are going to be jumping and trying to keep their balance. Some kids might get frustrated if they think they aren’t jumping as far as other kids

Overview: In this activity a child is going to start off with their hands on the floor and use their legs to thrust their body forward and hop into a squat position. They’re going to repeat it again but this time they’re going to try hop as far as they could and when they land try to land on both feet.

The kids get three tries

It doesn’t require any materials

In this game children are using their arms and legs for strength.

In this activity children will be making a straight line, and some space in front of them for other children to be lining up. Once lined up they will sit and kneel down and lean forward for the first child to hop.

You wont be needing any materials for this game.

Once each child had a turn, you can either keep going or finish up.

-Development domains, Physical, Emotional and Socially.

• Overview, in this game two players will have to sit across from each other, put the loop on your foot and pull.

• Materials, a loop or string/rope/band

• Instructions:

  1. Partners sit on the floor facing each other

  2. Place a loop around your own foot and your partners.

  3. Try to get the loop off your partners foot.

In this activity there are physical, social and emotion domains.

During the activity there will be two components that will be challenging each other. This includes everyone that wants to join in this game.

The two components that are challenging each other will be on their knees and both hands on the floor, their head under each others arm pit and once they’re ready we will say “1,2,3, go!” They will push each other until one of them passes the tape with their knees and they win. Winner challenges another person until that person loses.

Materials that will be need is tape.

Language,Social,Physical, emotional, cognitive

‘’Bones are made out of caribou antlers’’

The game is called ayagaq, and you use two bones

With a string between the two, one bone has a hole and the other bone is a straight little bone like a little stick (or you could use the small stick) for the second bone, you try and put the straight one into the hole & count how many you have some Inuit plays games with dice and have a time limit and at the end of the time you tell the host how many you have and who ever has the most you win the prize, in the games we use dice, like I have a number one on the dice we grab the ayagaq from the person who has it and play the game (and so on) like you put in 3 and who ever grabs it from you is next but when it’s your turn again and still have that many and keep on trying, counting up or (like if your host says to get like 25 into the hole you win)…

You could even play just for fun, take turns with everyone.

Materials: -Wood to make a target.

• Homemade caribou or sealskin beanbag.

Physical - using your arm to throw the beanbag to the target.

Cognitive- the children thinking how hard to throw the beanbag to throw to the target.

Make a target by using a wood and put a dot in the middle for them to hit it.

Make 2 lines that are 2 feet apart or further if you like, one end for the target and the other end for the kids to line up.

Line up the kids on one end of the lines across the target.

The children will take turns to hit the target.

Whoever hits it first is the winner. ( everyone is a winner for trying out the game).

Physical - Moving arms with bat, throwing ball to batter, batter moves feet.

Cognitive - players try to get batter out to get a turn.

Social - Any how many players, one batter. Played with family and or friends

Materials - A ball made from seal or caribou skin and bone or a driftwood bat.

Material preparation - Get homemade or regular bats or wood, stuffed caribou or seal ball ready to play for the children.

Overview - This game is played the Inuit way of baseball, you can have any how many players and one batter in the middle, one has the stuffed ball is to pass to batter and batter is to try bat/throw the ball far as they can, where the ball landed and whoever is near the ball can throw the ball at the batters feet, if it hits them then it is the throwers turn in the middle. This game ends whenever or when children all had their turn.

Developmental domain:

Physical

•both opponents use their body strength to try push the opponent over the circle/line. Muscles are strengthened.

Social

•they are learning to cooperate and accept the differences in others.

Overview:

Both opponents may sit back to back in a circle or have 2 lines at either end. Using leg, arm and body strength to try push opponent out of the circle or over the line.

Materials:

•Tape

Material preparation:

• create a small circle (depends on size of person)

•tape a line 2-4 feet from opponents feet.

Step by step preparation:

•have 2 people sit on the floor, backs facing each other.

•use arms and legs and push opponents past the line.

•losers foot goes out of the line, 3 tries are given with the best out of 3.

One; try with right hand between legs, two; with left hand between legs and the third try, if a tie, will be eastern style with both hands outside legs.

Closing:

Losers foot goes out of the line, three tries are given with the best out of 3.

1. Try with right hand between legs.

2. Try with left hand between legs.

3. If a tie, game will be eastern style with both hands outside of legs.