Push the Pancake!

The students love playing Push the Pancake. It's a crazy game which involves several skills. All students begin as a pancake player. Each student has a pan (paddle) with a pancake (beanbag) on top. Students guard their own pancakes while pushing other students' pancakes off. If a pancake falls or gets pushed off the pan, that student becomes a bowler outside the boundaries. Bowlers try to hit pancake players' feet. When a bowler hits a pancake players' feet, he gets to rejoin the pancake game inside the boundaries. Push the Pancake works on dodging, bowling, hand-eye coordination, reaction time, strategy, and aiming at a moving target.
















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