More Ideas for Catching
With baseball/tee-ball/softball season on the way let’s work on some catching skills!
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Tips and ideas to help children develop physically and occupationally, making movement enjoyable for parents, caregivers, educators and kids of all ages!
Posts about ball skills:
Activities to Increase Coordination
Coordination involves gross motor movements that require motor planning, accuracy, and timing. It...
Tips for Kicking
Once your little one understands what kicking is you may want to work on having them kick further...
Early Kicking Skills
How do you work on kicking the ball with your little one? Well just like with throwing and catching
More Tips for Ball Skills
Ball play can be hard to get a little one to focus on. Even if they love balls, they may only want...
Early Ball Skills
We often have parents ask when their little one should start throwing a ball. The answer is, we...
Coordination Round-Up
This round-up is a work in progress of our posts on how movement develops and is learned, as well...
Activity Round Up
With so many schools cancelled we wanted to pull together some of our blog posts to give you some...
Teaching Ball Dribbling
A while ago we did a post on how to progress dribbling a playground size ball starting with two...
Maintaining Supination for Underhand Activities
I know we recently talked about practicing underhand throwing, and as a result, as we were working...
Practicing Underhand Throwing
We recently talked about how to work on and practice overhand throwing with kids, and how to work...