Guided discovery ball activities

Description

Set out a variety of balls of different shapes, sizes and textures and ask children to pick one.

Ask them to find different ways of making their ball move and stop (by rolling, throwing, kicking, pushing with a part of their bodies, using another implement to push it along / bring it to a stop)

Related Skills

The development of laterality (sidedness)

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

Run and stop and start easily

Visual motor development – fixating and tracking objects

Pushes a walker, trolley or toy pushchair through space, learning rudimentary control

Control of the large and small muscles of the body

Moving own body through the environment showing an appreciation of own size and position. Able to turn, stop and start.

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).