Aim 

• To improve a student’s ability to dribble the football

 Equipment Required

• A ball for each student – different colors or numbers.
• Different colored hoops or cones.
• Colored armbands.
• Spot markers.
• Music

 Play Area Set-Up

• Spread the kids and give each of them a football

Activity Description

Repeat the Name Game

• Players stand in a circle and pass the ball to one another, but they must call out the name of the person they are passing to. This is great at the beginning of the session, so they (and you!) learn everyone’s names.

Main Game

• Everyone dribbles their football around the play area. When the music stops, students stop their ball completely and find a different colored ball.
• Different colored hoops or colored cones are on the floor. The hoops could be hanging from six different basketball hoops to help students keep their eyes off the ball. Students dribble their new colored ball to the matching colored hula hoop or cone and perform toe taps. Tap the ball with the sole of the right foot and then the left. Once all students are there, begin again. Place a different colored armband around the arch of each foot. Have students focus on using just the right foot (could be the blue band) or the left (could be the red band).

Variations

• Continue the activity and keep challenging the students with various dribbles, i.e., right foot, left foot, soccer dribble, change pathways, kick into the wall, follow a friend, rollover spots, tap into a cone, go under hurdles, and/or kick into a taped box on the wall.

Teaching Suggestions:

Be sure to review the cue words to help students understand the concept.