Movement skills/concepts

Bouncing, dribbling, space awareness, and moving at different speeds.

Set-up

• Large balls, markers, hoops, music.
• Children, each with a large ball, are spread out in a defined level, hard surface area.

Activity

• feel the ball, run your fingers over it,
• push the ball with your hands, try to squash it out of shape
• roll the ball with your hand, foot, knee, shoulder, elbow, head, nose
• roll the ball over your body, head to toe, make your body into the shape of a ball
• bounce the ball while sitting – holding the ball in both hands, push it down using a pushing motion with relaxed fingers and catch return
• progress to bouncing the ball while kneeling then standing, maintaining eye contact with the ball

Holding the ball in both hands at waist height and placing your feet a shoulder-width apart, can you bounce the ball …?

• continuously from a stationary position
• while stepping side to side, then while turning
• with one hand only – change to the other hand
• with one hand, varying the height
• around your body
• through your legs front to back, then back to front
• while walking/jogging/running
• with alternate hands while traveling
• along a line, then inside hoops
• in a restricted space with others
• to music/rhyme/song
• and move with a fast dribble and slow feet
• and move with a slow dribble and fast feet

Variations

Create a sequence: Make up your own bouncing sequence individually or with a partner.