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Build-a-Pitch

The child designs a pitch with a pond nobody may step on and a chair-leg tunnel: a goal that goes through the tunnel counts double.

At home 8 min 2 to 4 players Garden Indoors Park With a grown-up With brothers, sisters or friends 2018 to 2021

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At a glance

  • Your child builds the pitch: shoes for two goals, a towel for a pond nobody may step on, and a chair in front of one goal.
  • Play 1v1, with you using your other foot. A goal counts double if the ball goes through the chair legs (the tunnel) on the way in.
  • After 5 minutes, your child changes one thing about the pitch.
  • Progress 1: Add a second pond.
  • Progress 2: Keep both ponds, and a goal only counts if the ball has gone through the tunnel first.

If it's not working: Use a hand towel for a small pond, leaving more room to play.

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The pitch your child built: shoes for goals, a towel pond nobody may step on, and a chair a few steps in front of one goal. Your child dribbles round the pond, plays the ball through the chair legs and on into the goal, and that goal counts double. You play with your other foot.

Full details: set up, how to play, tips

Set up

  • Your child builds a pitch with two goals (shoes).
  • They add a pond (a towel) nobody may step on.
  • They put a chair a few steps in front of one goal. The gap between its legs is the tunnel: a goal counts double if the ball went through the chair legs on its way in.

Garden, indoors or park.

How to play

  • Play 1v1. You use your other foot to keep it fun.
  • After 5 minutes, your child changes one thing about the pitch.

Make it easier

  • Use a hand towel for a small pond, leaving more room to play.
  • Leave out the tunnel for the first game, so there is less to think about.

Make it harder, step by step

  1. Add a second pond.
  2. Keep both ponds, and a goal only counts if the ball has gone through the tunnel first.

Three things to say

  • Look for the tunnel, and mind the pond.

Colts habit

Leadership: the child designs and changes the pitch.

Both feet

The grown-up plays with their other foot.

Heads up

Where's the pond? Where's the tunnel?

Safety: Keep indoor play low and slow, away from glass, stairs and TVs. Use a soft ball indoors. Make sure the chair is stable.

My best

Things in my pitch. Last time and this time. Only ever compared with their own earlier go, never with anyone else's. Saved on this device only.