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Help your kindergartners learn states by printing a map of the United States. Print each National Football League team logo on small slips of paper. Have the children work together to tape each logo to the correct state. Give the children small star stickers and have them place a star next to each team logo that has been to the Super Bowl. For a math activity, help your students draw a graph showing each team who has been to the Super Bowl and how many time each team has won a Super Bowl.
Passing Games
Divide the students into two teams and give each team a small foam football. Give each team the names of the teams playing in the Super Bowl. Have each team stand in a circle. When you say ̶0;Go,̶1; they must toss the ball around the circle. The first team to drop the football loses the game. For a group game, have everyone pass the football around the circle while music plays. The player holding the ball when the music stops is out of the game. The last player remaining wins the game.
Banner Activities
Split the classroom into two teams. Give each team a long sheet of butcher paper to make a football banner. Each team will represent one of the teams going into the Super Bowl. The students can use paint, markers, crayons, streamers, stickers and glitter pens to make the banners. Or, give each team several poster boards. They can tape the poster boards together to make one large sign or make several individual signs. Turn this activity into a contest by awarding prizes to the team with the best banners or posters.
Football Games
Use plastic miniature footballs to play relay races in the classroom. Give each child a plastic spoon and divide the children into two teams. Mark a starting line and a run-to line. Have each team line up at the starting line and give the first player in each team line a football. The first players in line must place the football on his spoon, race to the run-to line and race back to pass the football to the next player in line. Each player must do the same thing and the first team to finish wins the race. Alternatively, have each team stand in a single-file line. The first team to pass the miniature football down the line using only their necks and chins wins the game.