Pumpkin Down

• Small Laundry Baskets (turn upside down)
• Plastic pumpkins 20-25
• Ten - fifteen soft balls
• Divide the students into two teams. Each team has to stay on their side (I tell them they can't go past the half court line on the floor).

• Review the proper form for throwing overhand, emphasizing that they must step with the opposite foot.
• Turn baskets upside down on the lines at opposite ends of the gym. Put a plastic pumpkin on top of each.
• The object of the game is to stay on your side and try to throw the ball to the opposing team's side and knock all of the pumpkins down.
• Once you throw your ball you may not cross over to the opposing team's side to retrieve it.
• However, the students may pick up and throw any thrown ball that may land on their team's side.
• When a pumpkin is knocked over put it inside the basket. The game is over when a team has no pumpkins.
• Switch sides and repeat as necessary.