Colorado Forest Adventure
Forest Explorers
Session details
AgeU5–U6 / Ages 5–6
Format3v3 Readiness
Time45–50 minutes
Group8–16 players
ValueSharing
Flow1v0 exploration → small-group discovery
Today's Adventure
Story · power · skills
The Nu Kru hikes through a Colorado forest and meets a chipmunk, snake, elk, and cougar. Each animal reveals a different way to control the ball.
Watch the Colorado Forest Adventure primer. Ask: Who do you like to share time with?
Story, setting, characters, and discussion
Watch the Colorado Forest Adventure primer. Ask: Who do you like to share time with?
The Nu Kru hikes through a Colorado forest and meets a chipmunk, snake, elk, and cougar. Each animal reveals a different way to control the ball.
Colorado forest: mountains, trees, rocks, creek or river, pine cones, trails, dens, and a campsite.
Samo, Kiki, Ayla, cubs Bailey and Teddi, plus the chipmunk, snake, elk, and cougar.
Who do you like to share time with?
Children can name people, pets, toys, books, rooms, parks, trees, or other places and things they enjoy sharing time with.
Before Practice Prep
Watch both videos before practice.
After the videos, review the cone color map and prepare picture clues before children arrive.
Printables3 session resources
Build small den-goal fields. Green cones are trees or wood, blue cones are rivers, red cones are rocks, yellow cones are trails, black cones are dens, and orange cones are treasure boulders.
Build the campfire removes green and red cones leaving treasure trail for final game
Run the Adventure
Adventure · Set Up · Run It
Activate Forest Animals
Children explore the forest with a ball and become four animals.
Use one open forest grid with scattered colored cones and several den goals around the outside.
Dribble freely. On the coach's call, use Elk Stomp, Chippy Tap, Snake Side, or Cougar Swipe. Repeat in short, playful rounds.
Build the Campfire
The Kru needs rocks and firewood for a safe camp. A river blocks the path.
Scatter green and red supplies. Mark blue river lanes and one safe camp zone on the side.
Dribble to collect one green wood cone or red rock cone, return it to camp, then stop the ball, pick it up, and river-hop over the blue creek.
Find Hidden Treasure
Chipmunks hid winter nuts and picture clues beneath giant orange boulders.
Create several yellow trails leading to den goals. Place one orange cone or cup with a picture clue near each goal.
Follow a yellow trail, score in a den, lift the nearby orange boulder, and remember the hidden clue before finding a new trail.
Share Clues and Solve
The Kru combines the clues to discover what the chipmunks were planning.
Bring the clues to the camp circle. Use simple sets such as hamburger, taco, or curry ingredients.
Form small sharing circles around children who missed a clue. Share pictures, guess the matching object or meal, then recall the four animal moves.
Which forest animal move helped you control the ball today?
Teach someone one forest move and tell them who you like to share time with.
Adjust and Coach
One session S.T.E.P. · equipment · coach clues
Open or tighten the forest. Offer easy, medium, and winding trails.
Change the animal move, add a color call, a weave, or a clue challenge.
Add or remove forest objects, supplies, trails, clues, or den goals.
Start 1v0. Pair explorers, make small groups, or let advanced pairs share the ball.
- One ball per child
- Green, blue, red, yellow, black, and orange cones
- Small goals or cone dens
- Picture clues taped to cups or cards
- Optional forest-animal cards
- Elk Stomp—stop it.
- Chippy Tap—tiny touches.
- Snake Side—side to side.
- Cougar Swipe—pull and turn.
- Find a new trail.