Learning Outcome

This activity develops hand-eye coordination, gross motor control, and the ability to track moving objects in the air. These skills transfer to sports and activities that involve flying objects (e.g., balls, shuttlecocks, frisbees, ribbons, sticks, batons).

Activity Description

Demonstrate to students how to stand with their hands and forearms forming a bowl or basket in front of their stomach.
Toss the ball into their basket from about 30 cm away.
As your child becomes confident catching at this distance, increase the distance of your toss slightly.
Eventually, see if kids can catch from 1 meter away.
For especially young, you might begin by simply sitting and rolling the ball back and forth between you.

Required Material

4 Boundary cone, beach ball/ plastic basketball