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This one came from a back issue of the excellent ET Professional magazine (ET meaning English Teaching, that is):
This activity practises prepositions of place with elementary students. Put a bin on a chair and draw an imaginary line about ten feet away. The students stand behind the line and aim a stone into the bin. Points are then won for various positions: in the bin (20 points), on the chair (15 points), under the chair (10 points), next to, behind, etc.
I'd suggest that the point of the activity is to actually say the prepositions correctly -- you get the points for that, not for your ability to lob a stone into a bin!
You could have several chairs and a couple of bags to add further interest to it, and might want to replace the stone with a screwed-up piece of paper rather than a stone -- especially if the bin is a metal one and there's a class next door!
Sounds like a great activity for a summer camp, to me...
ETP [website] comes out six times a year and currently costs 25 GBP a year. There's always something of interest in it... Highly recommended.
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With a group of design students (though you could surely do the same thing with any group), a colleague got them to "design" a similar diagram. As you can see above, one student turned the arrow into a matchstick man and added a paper bag or bags to illustrate the meaning (eg. the matchstick man climbing "into" or "out of" the bag).
