Physical: hand-eye coordination, reaction time, gross motor skill

Cognitive: sustained attention, selective attention, visual processing

Social: joint attention

2 or more

1 medium-sized ball OR basketball per child

1. the lead partner starts dribbling
2. the follower tries to mirror all lead partner’s dribble movements

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 environment: designate a specific space for the child and their partner to dribble, away from other children to decrease cognitive demand

Change the task: have the lead partner give verbal direction or cues to the other partner to decrease physical and cognitive demand

Change the task:

• have the lead partner dribble and take steps simultaneously to increase the physical demand
• have the partners switch roles on a signal to increase the cognitive demand

• the child will be able to lead the movements with a partner for 30 seconds while using a larger, bouncier ball
• I can mirror my partner by bouncing the ball faster and slower when they do