- 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?
- A throwing line
- A chalk target on the wall
- A goal area line
- A goal
Balls, cones, a limited area.
Three minutes to get warm.
Easy jogging on the spot, then arms and legs. How to warm up well is explained at workonfitness.com.
- Bounce the ball low at the side with the fingertips, knees bent, eyes up.
- Catch it, take three steps and stop: that is the most you may take.
- Pass to a team-mate: straight at the chest, then a bounce pass, then over the head.
Show it once from the front and once from the side, slowly. Then let your child try.
- Dribble low and close with the fingertips, knees bent, head up.
- Change speed and direction on your call.
- Dribble round cones.
- Pass round a triangle: bounce passes and overhead passes.
- Keep the 3-step rule.
How much: 3 rounds of 3 minutes
Low and close, fingertips
Ten passes
The rules
Keep-ball where a team scores by making 10 passes in a row.
- Play in a marked area
- The team with the ball passes; everyone counts the passes aloud
- The other team tries to intercept, with no contact
- An interception, a dropped ball or a foul gives the ball to the other team and the count starts again
Fair play: A team with a grown-up must pass only bounce passes.
- Points
- 1 point each time a team reaches 10 passes in a row.
- Fouls
- The ball goes to the other team: more than three steps with the ball; a second dribble; pushing, holding or snatching the ball from hands
- Win
- The most points in 5 minutes.
- 1
- 2
- 4
Dribble 15 steps with the head up and no loss of the ball.
End on one that works. If it was hard today, finish with the easier version.
Well played.
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