Home Run Anyone Instruction

Home Run Anyone Instructions for pre-school through 3rd grade, family games, nursing home games, retirement homes, and nursery schools. It teaches basic baseball rules and terms without swinging a bat!

Use Foam Home Run Anyone Cube or place the pocket cards in the pocket cube slots with home, single, double and triple around the perimeter and the outs on either end.
Lay out color coordinated poly spots in a diamond shape.
Divide the players into two teams. One at home plate and the other around the diamond to return the cube when it is rolled.
Have the first team line up behind home plate.
Taking turns, have each player roll the cube and proceed to the base specified by the color on the cube.
Each player then moves around the bases as the next player takes their turn, as in baseball.
When an out is rolled, it can be treated as a strike or an out, in which case, that player moves to the back of the line.
When a double play is rolled it can be treated as 2 strikes or the player and the one furthest along the bases are both out and they both go to the back of the line. If there are no players on the bases, the double will count as one out.
Teams continue until they roll 3 outs or reach 5 runs, the teams then exchange places..

Variations include having players either throw, hit or kick the cube to the opposing team, with the player stopping the cube announcing the play and returning it to home plate.

Use Foam Home Run Anyone Cube or place the pocket cards in the pocket cube slots with home, single, double and triple around the perimeter and the outs on either end.

Lay out color coordinated poly spots in a diamond shape.

Divide the players into two teams. One at home plate and the other around the diamond to return the cube when it is rolled.

Have the first team line up behind home plate.

Taking turns, have each player roll the cube and proceed to the base specified by the color on the cube.

Each player then moves around the bases as the next player takes their turn, as in baseball.

When an out is rolled, it can be treated as a strike or an out, in which case, that player moves to the back of the line.

When a double play is rolled it can be treated as 2 strikes or the player and the one furthest along the bases are both out and they both go to the back of the line. If there are no players on the bases, the double will count as one out.

Teams continue until they roll 3 outs or reach 5 runs, the teams then exchange places..

Variations include having players either throw, hit or kick the cube to the opposing team, with the player stopping the cube announcing the play and returning it to home plate.