Arrange for the students to compete in relays as a form of team-building exercise. Set up at least three runners per team. The relays can be running only or can include other physical activities as well, such as jumping rope or situps. Award points or extra credit to the teams that do well. Remind students to tag each other lightly on the hand when switching relay competitors. Other relays can involve other sports such as basketball or soccer.
Set up bowling lanes with plastic bowling pins and rubber bowling balls. Assign a list of fitness exercises that must be completed depending on how many pins the student knocks down, such as pushups or jumping jacks. Allow the students to skip an exercise if they get a strike or a spare during their turn. Divide the students into groups of four or five. Have the students rotate jobs, such as bowler, pinsetters and scorekeeper.
Have each student out on a flag belt (such as the kind used in flag football) with a flag on each side of the belt. Use cones to lay out boundaries for a playing field and a safe area. Put a box in the safe area for each student to put her stolen flags in. Have the students run around in the playing area and try to steal flags from other students. Once they steal a flag, they can take it to the safe area and drop it in their box or replace one on their belt that was stolen. Give the students positive feedback when they make a steal or a successful dodge. Stop the game if it gets to be too rough.
Set up a jogging area in the gymnasium with a medium-sized box or milk crate located in center of the track. Give each child a bean bag and instruct them to run a certain amount of laps. Each time they come to the end of a lap, they need to toss the bean bag and try to get it into the box, using an underhand motion. Once they make their toss, they need to retrieve their bean bag and run their next lap. They should continue this until they complete their required laps. Reward the students by taking away a lap they must run if they successfully get the bean bag in the box, or give them reward points, such as extra credit.