Year 3 – 4 | Slip, Slop Reaction Game

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Background

Slip, Slop reaction game involves two teams named Slip or Slop. It is similar to ‘Tag’ and ‘Chasey’, where you are trying not to
get caught by your opponent who chases you.

Physical literacy elements include:

• Reaction speed
• Stability/balance
• Speed
• Agility
• Strategy and tactics
• Motivation
• Coordination
• Self-regulation (emotions)
• Rules

Resources

• Open outdoor space – oval, quadrangle or courts
• Markers to indicate home base
• Resource sheet: Slip Slop Reaction Game

Instructions – How to play

1. Choose an appropriate space outdoors – possibly the oval, quadrangle or netball court.
2. Divide the class into two groups and have each group facing each other with a 1.5 metre space between.
3. One line of students is Slip and the other Slop.
4. Set up a home base twenty metres from each individual line.
5. On the signal, the teacher or student leader calls either Slip or Slop.
6. If Slip is called; all the students in the Slip line run to their home base trying not to get caught by their opponent from
   the Slop team, who chases them.
7. If Slop is called; all the students in the Slop line run to their home base trying not to get caught by their opponent from
   the Slip team, who chases them.
8. As this game is a reaction game, students are trying to have quick action response.

Variation

• The teacher or student leader can substitute other words as a decoy. If students move when these words are used, they
  lose points.
• Each team is allocated two words- e.g. Slip and Slap for team one and Slide and Slop for team two. Students need to
  listen to the leader and react according to which word is called.

When completing activities and lessons outdoors when the UV Index is 3 or above, please remember to be SunSmart