I love doing that. I think it is a good idea. It teaches children to work together to get out of problems and its fun! haha.

Yes, this is an appropriate activity. I did this with my fourth graders last October. They were actually a difficult group of children who caused a lot of trouble throughout the building. But, they LOVED this activity. They wanted to do it over and over again! I think I had about 6 kids in a group. They worked together well to get untangled every time. One boy who caused a lot of trouble was a strong leader in this activity. It was a good experience for him because he told his peers what to do, they listened, and they were successful. It was a great team building experience.

As far as other team building exercises, I am not a gym teacher. I haven’t led kids in team building P. E. activities, but I have seen a couple of activities before. We went on a camping trip for a field trip and the kids did team building exercises like trying to get everyone over a single rope without touching the rope. That was pretty hard, but the kids worked together while trying. You could also have a group of kids try to get each other through a hanging hula hoop without anyone touching the hula hoop. They used a tire swing at the camp.

Good luck!

I like the human knot, its good for that age and older.

Another game is called “Ha ha”. It works on self control and team building.

Everyone lies down on the floor, one person starts, and the next person lays their head on the first person’s stomach, so on and so on. You can do this with any amount of people, but its better for younger kids for it to be a smaller group.

One person at one end starts and says ‘Ha’. The next person says ‘Ha ha’, and the next person says ‘Ha ha ha’, so on and so on. They have to do this without laughing, and if you laugh, you have to start over.

Its pretty fun, actually!

Good Luck!

YES YES YES YES do it now i know what it means i love doing that but i havent done it with more than 10 people