Tips & Toys
Ideas with a Ping-Pong Ball
TAFELTENNISBALLETJIEDownload Blow soccer: Lie opposite your child on the floor approximately 50cm to 1m apart from each other (alternatively you can sit at opposite ends of the table). Each player receives half a straw. The aim of the game is to blow the ping pong...
Games with Bean Bags
BOONTJIESAKKIESDownload Bean bag twirl: Have your child position his/her fingers under the beanbag, holding it level. Keeping the beanbag level, slowly rotate the beanbag 360 degrees, using the fingers and thumb to manipulate it. Let the child hold the beanbag with...
Games with Building Blocks
BOU-BLOKKIESDownload Jenga: Let your child build a tower with the blocks with three blocks in each row. Alternate the rows, one row straight, one row across.Take turns to remove one block from the tower, stacking it on top of the tower (keep alternating the rows).See...
Fun with Cubes
Place the cubes on the floor or table in any order. Let your child look at the blocks for a while. Cover the blocks and ask your child to tell you the colours of the cubes from memory in order from left to right. Grade the activity by starting with only one or two...
Games with Balloons
BALONNEDownload Blow up your balloon. See who can blow up the largest balloon with only five breaths.Place the balloon part way in a bucket of water. Blow up the balloon so that the water overflows.Draw as many stick men as you can using a felt marker on your balloon...
Fun With Marbles
ALBASTERSDownload Copy the pattern: Work out some simple patterns with the marbles. Copy the patterns onto pieces of cardboard. See if your child can copy the marble pattern.Make this more challenging by adding more marbles.Improve your child’s memory by flashing the...
Ball Games
Chalk targets: Make a large circle on an outside wall of the house. In the middle of the circle mark a red target – use a saucer for the outline to make a perfect round circle. The red circle in the middle is the target. Place a hoop a few paces away from the target....