Your Skills Show
Your child puts together a 5-minute show of their favourite skills and performs it for you.
At a glance
- Clear a space for the stage. You and anyone else at home sit as the audience.
- Your child performs 5 minutes of their favourite skills, in the order they choose.
- Big clap at the end, and they take a bow.
- Progress 1: Commentary: they say the name of each skill out loud as they do it.
- Progress 2: Requests: the audience shouts a skill from the show and they do it straight away.
If it's not working: Make it a 2-minute show with their 3 favourite skills.
Full details: set up, how to play, tips
Set up
- A clear space for the stage, and an audience of one or more.
Garden, park, indoors.
How to play
- Your child puts together 5 minutes of their favourite skills, in the order they choose.
- They perform it for you (and anyone else). Big clap, and they take a bow.
Make it easier
- Make it a 2-minute show with their 3 favourite skills.
- Call out each skill for them, like a presenter.
Make it harder, step by step
- Commentary: they say the name of each skill out loud as they do it.
- Requests: the audience shouts a skill from the show and they do it straight away.
- The whole show with the practice foot.
Three things to say
- Pick the skills you're proudest of.
Colts habit
Work hard: little and often beats one long go.
Both feet
Do a round with the practice foot only.
Heads up
Look up between touches.
For your birth year
Pick a birth year to show the tweak for that group.
- Under 5s
- A one-minute show is plenty: a roll, a kick, a foot-on-top stop. Then a big bow and the loudest clapping.
Safety: Pick a clear, flat space, look out for traffic and hazards, and stop if anything hurts. Soft ball indoors.
Keeping score: Not counted. Applause only.