Six fun Easter themed games to use in swimming lessons
The Learn to Swim team has put together games to use in your swimming lessons in the lead up to the Easter holidays.
Easter Egg Hunt, Stages 1-7
Put floats and toys out across the lesson station in the pool and ask swimmers to hunt and collect specific items.
Equipment: Toys, floats, buckets.
Adaptability: Use sinkers for the swimmers that can touch the pool floor (Stage 4 +).
Bunny Bounce, Bunny Stop, all Stages
Learners will follow the traffic light direction of their teacher who will hold up different floats: one to represent bouncing forwards (green), turning in a circle (orange) and stopping (red).
Use a pool depth where learners are able to stand.
Equipment: Three floats to signify traffic lights; green, orange and red.
Adaptability: For those in deeper water, use a noodle.
Egg and Spoon Race, all Stages
Learners hold a small float and balance a ball on top and make their way as quick as they can to the other side of the station.
Equipment: A small float and a small ball each.
Adaptability: Ask swimmers to hold a float above the water and swim to the other side of the station whilst still balancing the ball on top of the float.
Diving Eggs, Stage 5 +
For advanced learners practising sitting dives. Learners need to dive down to the bottom of the pool to retrieve the Easter eggs.
Equipment: Sinkers (eggs).
Adaptability: Advanced Stages can attempt an Easter obstacle course where the children need to carry their eggs through the course.
Bunny Says, all Stages
The teacher is the bunny and will call out different instructions. Examples are ‘travel forward’, ‘travel backwards’, ‘jump on the spot’.
If the teacher calls out an instruction without saying ‘bunny says’ first, then the learners shouldn’t follow.
Equipment: None
Adaptability: Advanced Stages can perform this in deep water whilst treading water. the instruction.
Catch the Egg, all Stages
Learners need to work in pairs to throw and catch an Easter egg between them. Each time they catch the egg, they need to take a step back to create a larger space between them.
Try not to drop the egg as the shell will crack on the water.
Equipment: Easter egg (something to represent this – balls, beanbag, spaceship toys)
Adaptability: Can be performed in the deep end with the higher stages – practising treading water.