Mini Golf Throw

Skills:

Physical: under-hand tossing technique, upper limb coordination, hand-eye coordination

Cognitive: selective attention, visual processing

Social: turn taking

Number of participants:

1 or more

Equipment:

  • 1 beanbag
  • several hula hoops

Description:

  1. each child starts at a different hole and proceeds to throw the bean bag into the hoop

Wheelchair friendly?

Yes

Modifications to make the activity easier:

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

Change the equipment: use a bigger hula hoop to decrease physical demand

Modifications to make the activity harder:

Change the environment: vary the distance between child and hula hoop to increase physical and cognitive demand

Change the equipment: increase the number of hula hoops the child must toss into to “finish” a hole to increase physical demand

Goal examples:

  • the child can accurately under-hand toss the ball into a hula hoop placed 2m away, 2 out of 3 times
  • I can throw the bean bag into the hoop

Activity adapted from video above.