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Tennis Ball Drop

A grown-up drops a tennis ball without warning and the child catches it before the second bounce.

At home 5 min 2 players Garden Indoors With a grown-up 2016 to 2018

Everyone's a Keeper Work hard

At a glance

  • Stand facing your child, holding a tennis ball out at shoulder height.
  • Drop it without warning. Your child catches it before it bounces twice.
  • Your child swaps catching hands every few drops. Count catches out of 10.
  • Progress 1: Catch it before the first bounce.
  • Progress 2: Hold a ball in each hand and drop just one, without warning.

If it's not working: Drop it from above your head, so it takes longer to fall.

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Seen from above. Stand facing your child and hold the tennis ball out at shoulder height. Drop it without warning: it falls and bounces on the spot below your hand, and your child steps in to catch it before it bounces twice. Swap catching hands.

Full details: set up, how to play, tips

Set up

  • Stand facing your child, holding the ball at shoulder height.

Garden or indoors.

How to play

  • Drop it without warning.
  • They catch it before its second bounce.
  • Swap hands.

Make it easier

  • Drop it from above your head, so it takes longer to fall.
  • Count 1, 2, 3 and drop it on 3, so it is not a surprise.

Make it harder, step by step

  1. Catch it before the first bounce.
  2. Hold a ball in each hand and drop just one, without warning.

Three things to say

  • Ready position, eyes on the hand.

Colts habit

Work hard: ten drops.

Both feet

Swap catching hands.

Heads up

Eyes on the hand, not the floor.

Safety: Indoors, keep clear of stairs and glass.

My best

Catches out of 10. Last time and this time. Only ever compared with their own earlier go, never with anyone else's. Saved on this device only.