Survivor
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:
- several medium-sized dodgeballs
- 8 hula hoops
Description:
- four children from each team stand outside of a hula hoop with a bowling pin in it
- each team tries to under-hand throw or roll dodgeballs at the other team’s pin
- if the other team’s pin gets knocked down, the person guarding that pin hands the pin and hoop to the first person on her team waiting in line
- the child who was protecting the pin then goes to wait for her turn
Wheelchair friendly?
Yes
Modifications to make the activity easier:
Change the environment: have the child aim at a specific cone/hoop to decrease cognitive demand
Change the equipment: use a bigger lighter cone to decrease physical demand
Modifications to make the activity harder:
Change the environment: increase the distance between child who is throwing at the pin and hula hoop to increase physical and cognitive demand
Change the equipment: decrease the number of balls a child can throw at a pin to increase physical demand
Goal examples:
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the child will be able to accurately underhand throw the ball to knock down a pin placed 2m away, 2 out of 3 times
- I can underhand throw the ball towards the pins.