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Batting activities

Description

Hang balls at different heights and use hands or cardboard wands to strike them. Position the balls:

  • high to bat at
  • medium to hit at waist height
  • low for kicking or striking

Related Skills

Hand eye coordination

Hit a large beach ball with a stick or bat.

Tightly grip with either hand

Growing body awareness and the growing understanding of how body parts relate to each other

Visual motor development – fixating and tracking objects

The development of laterality (sidedness)

Bilateral integration (the ability to use both sides of the body together)

Early Movers

Early movers is a collaborative project between Loughborough University, the NCSEM and Loughborough campus nursery. Our work has been supported with Loughborough University Enterprise Funding through the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF).

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