www.tetrapakkids.com.

au

A Race Against Time

Details
Players: 1-4 children, 1 parent
Equipment: 10 tennis balls, 2 baskets/containers, 1 towel (this is enough equipment for 1 child), 1
stopwatch/timer

Introduction and story

This game will improve your child’s speed and coordination.
Story - The future of the earth depends on you. The world is running out of energy and in order to save
the planet you have to deliver the energy crystals to the clever scientists who can fix it. The only problem
is, he wants them very soon, and they are too heavy for you to carry to him in one trip. You have to
deliver them before the countdown ends to save the earth.

Instructions
Step 1: Place all 10 tennis balls in one basket at your chosen starting point. Place the towel next to the
basket, with enough space for your child to jump over it. Place the second basket 20 metres away from
the starting point.

Step 2: Your child begins at the basket filled with balls. Start the
timer. Child picks up a ball and runs to the second basket to drop off
the ball.

Step 3: Your child runs back to the starting point.

Step 4: Your child jumps sideways, left to right, over the towel 4
times*.

Step 5: Your child repeats steps 2-4 until all the balls are in the
second basket. Child must complete this task in 6 minutes to ‘beat the
clock’.

www.tetrapakkids.com.au
 www.tetrapakkids.com.au

*To keep the exercise entertaining for your child, you can change the movement over the towel each time
they do the exercise.
Alternative movements include:
 Jumps with two legs
 Jumps with one leg (similar to hopping)
 Star jumps/jumping jacks
 Squat jumps
 To do a squat jump, you child stands with feet hip width apart and bends knees.
 Your child then jumps from this position, so that knees are extended and folded beneath
the child’s body before extending again and landing.

Muscles exercised
• Muscles involved in cardio exercises
• Legs

Benefits
• Fitness
• Running speed
• Coordination
• Remembering a sequence

www.tetrapakkids.com.au