Activity #1: Bucket Golf

Purpose of activity: To develop throwing and targeting skills.

Suggested ability: All abilities
Equipment:
1. Three to eight buckets or pails
2. One yarn ball or bean bag for each student
3. Clipboard or notebook to keep score
Introduction: Golf is an easy game to modify and play for most of the classrooms. It is fun
and quick to set-up.
Activity: Place the buckets around the classroom or small outdoor area on the ground. A
circle works best, especially for beginners. If students are mobile and can throw, place the
buckets further apart or in more difficult locations. For students with limited skills and
abilities, place the buckets approximately six feet apart.
Each student (or pair of students) will start at one bucket and proceed around the buckets
in a clockwise direction.
On the teachers command students will throw their ball towards the adjacent bucket.
Aides will assist as necessary.
Aides will count how many attempts it takes to get the ball into the bucket and record it
on the score sheet. Aides may lift the bucket up for students to drop the ball into the
bucket if they are in wheelchairs.
Students stop until everyone has completed their first bucket. After everyone student
has made a bucket they proceed to the next bucket. This continues till every student has
made every bucket




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Activity 5 Tic-Tac-Ping Pong
Purpose: To practice grasping and releasing a small ball
Suggested Abilities: Students with very limited grasping and releasing skills.
Equipment:
1. Nine large plastic cups
2. At least five ping pong balls of two different colors.
Activity:
Place the cups in the box to form a square.
Have first student drop a ball into the box. The ball should land in a cup.
Second student repeats and drops the ball into another cup.
If the second students ball lands in cup with a ball in it, the first ball is removed.
Play continues until one student has three in a row.
Variations:
Game can be played with hula hoops and by tossing bean bags.
You can have teams. Line students up so that they take turns releasing.










Activity #2 Crazy Throw
Purpose of Activity: To Develop Throwing and Targeting Skills
Suggested Abilities: All
Equipment:
1. Variety of balls. They should vary in size, texture, color, shape, material. Bean bags
can work as well.
2. Variety of targets: Hula hoop, trash can, bucket, bean bag (as target), chalk outline,
bowling pin, etc.
3. Notebook or score sheet
4. Music
Activity:
Space targets about the room or playground area. At each target have at least two
objects to throw and each target should have different varieties of balls to throw.
Have two students begin at a target. When the music plays the students throw the balls
to the target. Staff records how many times the target is hit.
When the music stops, the students proceed to the next target to try to throw other new
balls and different targets.
Note: Balls that dont roll too far work best. Deflating balls will help prevent them from
rolling too far.
Types of balls: Bean Bags Spike balls
Types of Targets Hula Hoops Cones Buckets
Bowling pins

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Activity #3 Three Player Kickball
Purpose: Kicking, throwing, passing and aerobic conditioning. An excellent lead-up game to
baseball.
Suggested Abilities: All with support for the students with more severe needs.
Equipment: Soccer or playground ball, poly spot for home base, cone for second base.
Activity:
There are three players per game; one kicker, one pitcher and one fielder.
1. The kicker starts at home base and kicks the ball. The ball may be rolled or
stationary depending on skills of the students.
2. Upon kicking the ball, the kicker runs around the cone and back to home
base.
3. The fielder runs after the ball and returns it to the pitcher. Play is stopped.
4. The pitcher becomes the fielder, the fielder becomes the kicker and the
kicker becomes the fielder.
5. Score can be kept by having the kicker run the two bases until the fielder
returns the ball to the pitcher. One point for each base that is touched.











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6. Ping Pong Shuffle Board
Purpose:
1. Develop target and aiming skills
2. Improve grasping and releasing technique
3. Keep score
Play: Can be played with two players or teams. Similar game as tic tac toe.
Equipment:
1. 12 large plastic cups and six ping-pong balls per team.
2. 6 x 2 foot table. Most players will play the width of the table.
3. One scoreboard per game.
Each player or team has six cups arranged in a triangle. The cups should be touching. The
cups are arranged in the following order: The cups have the corresponding

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Team A throws the ball into the bounce area, aiming for Team Bs cups. If the ball lands in
a cup, Team A gets the corresponding number of points.
After Team A shoots, then it is Team Bs turn. Each team takes turns until their six shots
are taken. The team with the most points wins.
If students are unable to bounce the ping pong ball, they may drop the ping pong ball into
the cups.
Summer variation: Fill cups up with water so the students get splashed and wet!


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Game 7. Knights of Noodle
Purpose: Introductory striking activity.
Equipment:
1. Large foam swim noodles, cut in half. The ones with the large hole in the middle are
best. The students are able to insert their hand and arm in the noodle and do not
need to grasp it.
2. Variety of balls or balloons spaced about the classroom.
Activity 1. Wacky Noodle. If the students are in wheelchairs, they can be pushed to each
target. Students go about the room, hitting the balls or balloons. Be sure to place the
balloons ar various heights and locations. Many students in chairs are not able to see
objects on the ground.
Activity 2. Noodle Pandemonium. If students are mobile, they can push the balloon/balls
with the noodles around the class.
Activity 3. Jousting. Take a sheet of paper and make a target with three rings. Center ring
is 10 points, middle ring is 5 and outer ring is 3. Tape target on the wall or the back of a
chair.
Students take turns trying to hit the center of the target
Activity 4. Noodle Hockey.
Use two chairs or cones for goal posts. Students use noodles as hockey sticks to push the
ball into the target.
Activity 5. Hit the Apple.
Hang balloons from the ceiling and various locations. Four to eight balloons is appropriate.
Students use noodles to hit the balloons.
For students with vision impairments, place bells on the balloons. Shake the bell for the
student to become aware of location. When they hit the balloon, there will also be an
auditory reinforcement as well.


Game 8. Not in My Backyard
Object of Game: To place your trash into your opponents bucket before they do.
Excellent for grasping and releasing practice. Students who are mobile will get a lot of
exercise going from one side to the other and bending down to pick up balls.
Equipment:
1. 8 to 12 ping pong balls, bean bags, or whiffle golf balls of two colors.
2. Two boxes or pails to collect balls
3. Two flat pans that can be placed on a table for wheelchair kids to reach. Mobile
students can pick the balls up off the ground.
Play:
1. Divide the class into two equal teams on opposite sides of the room. Use cones or
tables to divide the room in half.
2. Team A will place or drop their ping pong balls into the Team A bucket on the Team
Bs side of the room. Team B will drop theirs into their bucket. to grasp the balls)
3. Play continues until one side has placed all their ping pong balls into the bucket.












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