Bunnies Lesson Planning

Intro

• Names/ intro

• Putting on skis

• Falling and Rising

• Simon Says

  • First lesson: Choose simple things you know they can do (Touch your nose, put your arm over your head, make a silly face)

  • skills for lessons after lesson 1: standing on one foot, running on the spot, jumping, falling and rising, side stepping, star turn and herring bone position

Obstacles/ Follow the leader

First/ second lessons: Have kids ski around the stadium and assess where they are at. Divide them into four groups of similar abilities to go through the obstacles.

Flat:

• Sidestepping (Over ropes or bamboo poles) “snakes”

• Ski under hoops/ arches

• Star turn - draw a star with skis

• Flat slalom - ski around hula hoops

• Jump in place

• Skiing in the track - use foam balls, push them along the track with ski tips

• throw a soft ball (or a stuffed animal) in an arc to skier, such that they have to move forward to catch it + skier does a star turn when they catch the ball

Hills

• Uphills - Duck walk

  • Uphill slalom

• Downhills - Pizza

  • Downhill slalom

Skill Drills

• Star turns:

  • draw the outline of a pizza with skis

  • stamp a star with skis

• Rise and Fall

  • Make body prints in the snow out of gatorade.

  • “Timber” skiers are trees, when leader calls “timber” they all fall over and get up

• Diagonal Stride

  • use foam balls, push them along the track with ski tips

• Snowplow

  • Build a snow pile

• Sidestep

  • Snakes

• Herringbone

  • Duck walk

Games

• Bubble Run: Bring a big container of Bubble Soap mix and wands for the coaches. Then let clouds of bubbles fly and have the kids chase them on their skis.

• Thousand Steps: Skiers try many little steps rather than big ones. Ask them to use certain number of steps to get from one point to another. Bring the number down as they improve. Change directions. Count with them.

• Hokey Pokey: The skiers stand in a circle and sing to the tune of Hokey Pokey: “You put your right ski in, you take your right ski out, and shake it all out. You do the HokeyPokey and turn yourself around…” Then repeat with different parts of the body. Then finish with everyone sliding into the center of the circle for the one last rousing round.

• Silly Ants – a silly falling down game that young kids love (instructor calls “Silly Ants” and skiers have to fall down on their backs and wave their skis in the air)

• Magic hoops (like musical chairs, group skis around hoops set into the ground kids have to ski under a hoop when leader calls out stop, but make sure that there are enough hoops so that no one is “out”).

• Red light green light

• What time is it Mr. Wolf

• Duck Duck goose (Only on warm days, too much standing for cold days)

• Save the stuffies/ Squirrels and Nuts: Two Hoops that make up "stashes". Squirrels transfer the stuffies from one hoop to the other. Practice balance/ pick up/put down.

• Corn Hole

• Parachute

• Biathlon (target + ball to throw)

• Pool noodle tag: kids vs parents. Parents try to avoid kids, kids try to tag them with noodles - then switch

• Pond and shore: Have skiers sidestep into the tracks (the pond) then ski to a set of cones. Have skier sidestep out of tracks (onto the shore) and duck walk back to start (be sure to have the skiers stepping in and out of tracks on both sides).

• Twinkle, twinkle little star: each time you sing “star” skiers do a star turn

Games that require some pre-planning

• Treasure hunt

• Candy Tree

Resources:

Kitchen:

• Food colouring (For coloured water)

• Bubbles

Toy Shed:

• Ropes

• Bamboo poles

• Cones

• Parachute

• Corn hole

• hoops/ arches

• Pool noodles

• Foam balls

• Stuffies

• Rainbow feather dusters

Bike Shed:

• V-boards

• Arrow signs

Lodge:

• First aid kits

• Liquid glide wax

• Participant list

• ERP

• Hand Warmers

• Extra mittens and toques

• stickers/ sticker board

• Bunnies booklets

• Coach hats/ jackets

Grooming Shed

• Drill

• Snow drill bit