• Check the space and the kit.
• Get your child's attention first.
• Show it from two sides.
• Say one thing only.
• End on one that works.

Put the phone down where you can see it. Tap Next with your thumb, or use the arrow keys.

Is the space marked?

• The start line
• A turning cone at 10 m and at 15 m
• A throwing line well behind the landing area
• Chalk or tape rows for scoring jumps and throws (1, 2, 3 points)

Hoops, chalk circles or tape crosses as pads, 1 m apart in a line; small rewards (bean bags).

Three minutes to get warm.

Easy jogging on the spot, then arms and legs. How to warm up well is explained at workonfitness.com.

1. Jump with two feet from pad to pad: bend, swing the arms, look ahead, and land quietly with bent knees. Hold still.
2. Hop on one foot from pad to pad, landing on the same foot.
3. Hop, step, jump: land on the same foot, then the other foot, then both, saying "same, different, both".

Show it once from the front and once from the side, slowly. Then let your child try.

1. Two-foot jumps pad to pad, holding each landing.
2. Hops pad to pad.
3. Link them: two feet, hop, two feet.
4. Hop, step, jump, saying "same, different, both".

How much: each pattern along the pads 3 times

Bend your knees, land quiet

Call the jump

Points

1 point for the right jump on every pad; 1 more point for a quiet, still landing on the last pad. The winner of each call takes a bean bag.

Fouls

No points for that call: the wrong kind of jump; a foot lands outside a pad; a wobble or a step after the last landing

Win

The most points after 8 calls each.

1. ★ 6
2. ★★ 11
3. ★★★ 16

8 pads in a row with a quiet two-foot landing each time.

End on one that works. If it was hard today, finish with the easier version.

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