Play a chasing game to tie in with your project on wood (see overleaf).
Child develpoment opportunities
* To listen and respond to instructions
* To respond emotionally as well as physically
* To find out more about risk-taking
How to play
* Say you're pretending the room or playground is a wood with trees.
* Select three or five children to represent trees.
* The other children run and skip around one of the trees.
* As they do they say:
Round the tree,
Round the tree,
When I touch wood,
You can't touch me
* Select one child to be the chaser who runs anywhere in the wood.
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