Fruit Salad Upset Game

Game set-up
1.Choose five fruits (for a class of about 25 you can use more or less depending on the number of students you have).
2. Have the students sit in a circle in chairs preferably but you can use differnt locations if you are doing this game outside with a set number of students per location.
3. Assign each student a fruit --they must remember the fruit they are assigned.

Game play
1. Call out one of the fruits. All students assigned that fruit must get up and find a new spot to sit or move from their location to another that has space. (no one is ever out this game is just about learning terms, observation and movement)
2. After calling individual fruits for a little while call out "Fruit Salad" when the students hear this they all need to get up and find a new spot or location. This WILL result in mass chaos don't be alarmed that should happen. Continue calling individual fruits with the occassional salad thrown in until you can't take it any more or it is time to move on to another activity. Be warned this will make the students a bit wound up but given enough space to run it may tire them out too.

Variations:

• Erosion: Use Soil terms-(Sand, clay, silt, humus, rocks, pebbles, etc). Call "Erosion" to make all students move.
• Stir-fry-Use veggies (carrot, turnip, bok choy, etc). Call "Stir-fry" to make everyone move.
• Storm-Use plant parts (seed, roots, stem, etc or weather terms-rain, flood, snow, sleet, wind, thunder, cirrus cloud, etc). Call "Storm" to make everyone move
• Bug Zapper or Insectory-use insect terms (head, abdomen, thorax, compound eye or insect names-stink bug, ladybug, lacewing, cucumber beetle, etc). Call "Bug Zapper" or "Insectory" to make everyone move.
• Potpourri-use herb or edible flower names (rosemary, lavender, parsley, nasturtium, calendula, etc). Call "potpourri" to make everyone move

I am sure there are more variations that can be done. Let me know if you think of one.