• 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)

A strip of masking tape running up the wall from the child's standing reach; a crayon or chalk dust on the fingertips.

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. Stand side-on to the wall and reach up with the near hand: mark your standing reach.
2. Bend the knees and swing both arms back.
3. Swing the arms up hard, push through the toes and touch the tape as high as you can.
4. Land with bent knees and hold still.

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

1. Mark the standing reach.
2. Chalk on the fingertips.
3. 3 jumps, touching as high as you can, holding each landing.
4. 3 rounds. Then 3 jumps from one step, taking off from one foot.

How much: 3 rounds of 3 jumps, then 3 one-foot jumps

Look up at the tape

Beat your mark

Points

1 point for each centimetre above your standing reach.

Fouls

The jump does not count: a step or run-up in the two-foot jumps; the landing is not held (a step or a fall)

Win

Beat your own best mark. With two players, the bigger number wins.

1. ★ 15
2. ★★ 25
3. ★★★ 35

3 jumps in a row within 3 cm of the best mark, each landing held.

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

Well played.

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