Learning Outcome

Balloon tennis is a fun indoor exercise game designed to help kids practice hand-eye coordination, learn the basics of net sports, and burn off excess energy ⏤ all while not destroying your house in the process.

Activity Description

Make up your little balloon rackets by sticking a ruler onto a paper plate (We’ve found that just a couple of pieces of standard sticky tape are enough to secure a paper plate onto a ruler)

Hit the balloon into the wall, trying to keep it off the floor.

Count how many hits you can do before the balloon touches the ground. Try to beat your own score.

-If a “winner” is required, the pair that can hit the balloon between the two of them the most amount of times before it touches the ground, is the winner!

Variation: Pretend to be playing tennis in slow motion. This adds plenty of giggles!

Glow Tennis! Try using light-up balloons for even more fun and challenging game of balloon tennis in the dark!

Required Material

1 balloon,1 paper plate for each player,1 ruler for each player, sticky-tape