Physical: kicking a ball, lower limb coordination, balance

Cognitive: visual processing, selective attention

1 or more

one ball per child, range of target making equipment (e.g., cones, hoops, wooden pins)

1. children kick the ball:
   • with different parts of their foot  (i.e., kick the ball with instep, inside of foot, outside of foot)
   • in different ways (ie. at a target on the wall, between 2 cones, in different directions, stationary, rolling toward you, rolling away from you, to a stationary partner, to a moving partner, kick the ball high, as hard as possible, at a moving target)

This activity might not be suitable for people who use wheelchairs. “Wheelchair Friendly Activities” has a list of activities that are easy to adapt for wheelchair users. This list isn’t exhaustive, so we invite you to come up with your own creative ideas to make any activity work for you. If you have an idea on how to make this or any other activity more accessible for wheelchair users, We’d love to hear your ideas on how to make this or any other activity accessible for wheelchair users. Thank you for helping make play more inclusive!

Change the task: do not require children to aim at targets to decrease physical and cognitive demand

Change the equipment: use a larger, lighter ball (i.e., beach ball) to decrease physical demand

Change the environment: have the child kick in a small, enclosed space to decrease the physical demand of retrieving the ball

Change the environment: have the child keep the ball in a marked space of controlling the ball to increase the physical and cognitive demand of controlling the ball

• in two weeks, the child will be able to kick the ball in 5 different ways
• I can kick the ball in several different ways