Bucket Toss Golf

Skills:

Physical: accuracy in throwing, under-hand toss, over-hand toss, upper limb coordination, hand-eye coordination

Cognitive: selective attention, visual processing

Social: turn taking

Number of participants:

2 or more

Equipment:

  • buckets
  • medium-sized ball

Description:

  1. children start at a distance from the first bucket and try to throw the ball into the bucket
  2. if completed, they continue onto the next bucket

Wheelchair friendly?

Yes

Modifications to make the activity easier:

Change the environment: decrease the distance between child and bucket to decrease physical demand

Change the equipment:

  • use a bean bag instead of a ball to decrease physical demand
  • use a bigger bucket to decrease physical demand

Modifications to make the activity harder:

Change the environment: increase the distance between child and bucket to increase physical demand

Change the equipment: increase the number of buckets to increase physical and cognitive demand

Goal examples:

  • the child can accurately under-hand toss the ball into a bucket placed 2m away, 2 out of 3 times
  • I can toss a ball into the bucket