Celebrate Soccer with New Activities for Your Students!

We may be heading into the winter, but the beautiful game of soccer is in the air! Since the 2022 FIFA World Cup is well underway in Qatar, we’ve decided to highlight some of our favourite soccer activities from the PLAYBuilder platform. These activities will get your students moving and learning fundamental skills—all while having a blast!

PLAYBuilder Picks:

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Duration: 5 Minutes

Age range: 6-12

Setup: 

• Place participants into groups that provide for the maximum amount of movement, participation, and safety. Line them up on the end line of the playing area. Give each participant a ball.
• Place about six cones or poly spots in a line in front of each group with just less than one meter apart between cones or poly spots. Stress that this is not a race.

Instructions & Cues:

• The first person in each line dribbles forward and weaves in and out of the cones or poly spots to the other end line and back. Then the next person in line goes. While participants are waiting for their turn, they can dribble back and forth on the spot to increase their movement.
• Continue for an allotted time period. You can challenge the participants to speed up little faster as they become more comfortable.

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Duration: 7 Minutes

Age range: 10-13

Setup: 

• Participants are spaced around a circle 10 yards in diameter with 2 players in the center.

Instructions & Cues: 

• The object of the game is to keep the people in the center from touching the ball.
• The ball is passed back and forth as in soccer.
• If a center player touches the ball with a foot, they are awarded a point.
• No player may hold the ball longer than 3 seconds in order to keep the ball moving.
• Rotate two new players in the center after every 30 -60 seconds. 

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Duration: 5 Minutes

Age range: 6-9

Setup: 

• All students should have a soccer ball.
• Use cones to mark the playing field. 20×20 meters is recommended. Adjust accordingly to number of students, age, and skill level,
• Pick two students to be noodle stoppers.
• Noodle Stoppers start with noodles in their hands in the middle of the playing field.

Instructions & Cues: 

• Students with soccer balls try to dribble across the playing field without a noodle stopper taking the ball away from them.
• Noodle stopper’s goal is to hit the ball of the students dribbling with their noodles.
• If your ball is hit by one of the noodle stoppers, you must grab a noodle and become a noodle stopper.
• Goal of the activity is to be the last student still dribbling their soccer ball.

Now that you’ve seen a few of the soccer activities available on the SPA-PL PLAYBuilder platform, it’s time to get playing! Click on any of the three PLAYBuilder picks to see more and start planning your soccer activities.