PE
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Mokou - the stone game
A fun outdoor Lesothan game
A 5-a-side game for break times that is played in Lesotho. Mokou involves being quick on your feet and working as a team - requiring only some stones and a recycled plastic bag ball to play. Playing African games like this can be a great way of teaching how to have fun outdoors using local materials.
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Make an African plastic bag football
A photo guide to make a recycled ball
These sheets will help your pupils to make a football out of recycled materials - just like thousands of children in African countries. It’s a great activity to link to a recycling project and can be used to discuss the uses of waste materials in the UK. But it’s also simply a really fun thing to do with your class, and could prompt you to organise your own mini-African tournament - with pupils learning about different countries along the way.
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Drop Scotch
Fun hopping game from Lesotho
A variation of Hop-Scotch played in Lesotho by Julia. The game involves shunting a shoe polish tin around a grid as you hop. Not as easy as it sounds, but really good fun! You could have a competition to see who can get to the end.
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Dodgeball
Lively African ball game
This is a popular game in East Africa, game played in many school playgrounds. It involves at least three players and lots of running and dodging. It can be a good way of getting pupils active at breaktime.
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Circle game
Fun, small group game from Rwanda
A group game for break times, also called, ‘drop the hanky’, can be used to highlight similarities and differences in forms of play. Rose from Rwanda plays this game, it involves being quick on your feet and being sneaky.
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Bounceball
Simple but fun playground game
A Rwandan ball game for the playground which Rose from Rwanda plays, much like more traditional forms of play from the UK. It is quite easy to explain, but difficult to do! A good outdoor activity for an Africa day breaktime.
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