She has Multiple Sclerosis, so coordination is a big challenge for her. Activities that specifically target coordination are helpful because our nervous system creates pathways from the brain to the body based on repetitive action. Practice ingrains patterns , making our movements smoother with less effort. But yes, a bit of coordination drilling can energize an otherwise listless and dull workout. There are so many examples we could include here, and really, you could find so many drills to do with whatever you enjoy the most.
This fun partner exercise has you catching and bumping the ballon back and forth with each other using your hands, heads, and other body parts.
Change the angles and speeds to keep it unpredictable, and try starting out facing different directions or work on standing closer together or further apart. More than just for those creepy clowns at birthday parties, juggling is a great way to develop rhythm and timing. Start with slow circles with just two balls, finding your pacing and coordination between both hands, then add the third ball.
The benefit of this exercise is in the repetition and the awareness of how off-beat you can be when you are flustered.
Another partner exercise, this time with a small ball, this drill allows for faster speeds than with balloons. Change up the speeds, angles and throwing patterns for endless variations.
Also work on facing away, then your partner tells you to turn as she tosses the ball over. Running in place, one foot multiple hops, and crisscrossing are all options you can play with.
Keep the rope moving at a steady pace while you get fancy in your footwork, and jumping rope can be an incredible coordination drill that teaches you how to maintain rhythm and control while fatigued. Start close to the target and progressively move further away from it, and also play with standing at different angles rather than directly in front of it.
You can add another level of difficulty by turning away, then quickly turning and aiming for the target. Back to the ball toss, you can vary your orientation and positioning to add even more variety to the activity.
Try on both knees, moving in a squat, lying on your back or stomach or side, lunge positions—whatever feels most challenging and fun. This is a great chance to incorporate some mobility work into your coordination drills. As your child grows above five years of age, you can engage your child in sports such as tennis.
Tennis is excellent in enhancing motor skills, hand to eye coordination and timing. It is also a great activity to encourage your child to be sportive. Playing is an excellent activity for your child to learn several essential lessons of which hand to eye coordination is another important aspect. Some of these ball games are — throwing and catching the ball, bouncing the ball, rolling the ball along the ground to knock down the bottles, tossing the ball in a hoop, ball suspension in a net, balancing the ball on a bat or racket, wall ball, over throwing the ball, kicking the ball in a goal, playing handball and tennis.
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Get help. Parenting Healthy Babies. Activities for Kids. Consult a medical practitioner for health problems. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. I love games that involve throwing, bouncing, and catching a ball, bean bag toss activities, bal-a-vis-x, and whatever motivates my kiddos!
My kids like bowling , tick tac toe using bean bags, stacking cups, labyrinth. Cheewing ring toss, or cup and ball game. Draw a picture of a target could be me, a dinosaur, favorite Paw Patrol character then use either nerf guns or balls of varying sizes to aim at target. Marsden ball with letters written on it, and the student has to spell words, or touch specific letter written on the board with a pointer.
Homemade container play. Empty water bottle and clothespins or baby food lids placed in a margarine lid with a slot cut in it. A favorite in our house is clothes pins and pom poms, and trying to get them into different sized bottle openings. I use beanbag tossing a lot. The students toss beanbags to word cards for the letter of the week and they catch beanbags during circle time.
We have some beanbag toss games they play with during motor time. I love using the poppers where you squeeze the belly and shoot a ball at various targets, letters, numbers, etc. I play lots of drawing and copying games with students. Many times we work on drawing how different emotional faces might look, so we are working on self-regulation and emotional control at the same time! My older kids like hitting a target with a stress ball or try to get squeegiz to stick on a target, scarf tossing, tabletop cornhole set, pong set into small cups.
Using nerf gun to shoot down Moving targets, bean bag tossing , Sorting out different items by color, shape, texture, or use. We may go outside an play on the playground. We may use the ball-a-vis-x program. Dart boards with velcro balls and a fabric target, badmitten with wooden rackets and a feather shuttle, wooden rackets and a balloon.
Catch with a balloon. I use lots of manipulative and crossing midline to obtain them or holding them in various places so they have to look before grasping. Copying design of something — block design, playdough, wikistix, popcycle sticks, legos, magnatiles, drawing… popping bubbles!! Whilst sitting on a log swing, having the children collect weighted balls from the ground, focusing on bilateral coordination, core strength and balance, and then throw to bowling pins.
Similarly, by throwing and catching on swing, hoops and even motor fine motor skills such as lacing and threading, its a great may to integrate hand eye co-ordination with further developmental areas.
Oh sooooo many!!! All ages of students from preschool- 3rd g rade loved it and got a lot of writing work done as well. I used the dry erase board and g radually made my dry erase crayon lines skinnier and skinnier with great results!
My kids love ball popper animals. We set up cups and they shoot the ball at the cups. We do body bowling, mirror movements, charades, follow the leader, obstacle courses, step by step drawings, puppets. Get the latest tools and resources sent right to your inbox! Eye Hand Coordination , Occupational Therapy. Hand Eye Coordination Toys. Share on facebook. Share on pinterest. Share on twitter. Prev Mightier for Self-Regulation. I like to add a paddle instead of just their hands. I use lots of ball activities and targets or bean bag toss.
Ball toss, bean bag toss, bubbles, Mr. Potato head. Targets, dribbling with large physioballs, paddleballs, activities like tetherball. I incororporate a lot of Bal A Vis X paired with spelling words. Throwing a ball at a target tennis ball with velcro target , stringing beads, mazes.
Balloon volleyball and pretend snowball fights! My son likes to use the ball popper animals for target practice.
I love to use bean bags to toss and bingo dot pictures! I love using lite bright and push them around pictures or letters into styrofoam!! Throwing a ball soft stress ball at a target. Sometimes we draw the target on the white board.
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