Fun games for sporty kids
Inspiring kids to take an interest in sport is so important – keeping active will keep them healthy and happy.
Running, jumping, kicking, climbing and reaching are things young kids love to do and are great ways of using all the muscle groups.
This gives kids confidence in their bodies while the interaction of playing sport with their friends, classmates and family gives them important social skills they can use throughout their life.
Encouraging kids to enjoy sport also has benefits for parents. Letting children exhaust themselves with happy pastimes makes use of their natural energy and often means they are better behaved. It also helps them work up an appetite when it comes to dinner time!
Yellow Moon stocks many educational games which sports-mad kids should find challenging and enjoyable. A Smart Toss Maths Sports Set combines fun maths learning with four sports – bowling, golf, basketball and baseball. Tossing the bean bag can help kids as young as just 3 master basic addition and subtraction skills.
This game is great for children to play with younger or older siblings – if kids are playing the golf version of the game then parents can always introduce a ‘handicap' system to prevent the older ones from having an unfair advantage!
The Reflex Soccer Football Game, as the name suggests, is great for sharpening reflexes. Once the kit arrives all you need do is fill the base with water and inflate the ball and you're ready for action. The recoil action makes it great for footy-mad youngsters to practice their shooting, passing and intercepting skills. Kids should try and use both feet if they are attempting this!
They can also use it to practice their goalkeeping skills; parrying, catching or punching the ball as it springs towards them.
The Reflex – what a game!
Once the kids have worked on their reflexes, they'll want to turn their attention to their shooting skills. A Penalty Shoot Out Football Game provides just the target – goal posts and net - they need to do this.
There are five targets in the goal to shoot at. This allows junior footballers to practice keeping the ball low (by keeping your knee and head over the ball) or shooting high (leaning back). Or they can just have fun by hitting and hoping for the best.
Accuracy is definitely important with Flying Ring Golf. You can take the nine scoring flags to the local park, plant them in the ground and challenge your kids to throw the coloured rings so that they land over the poles.
If they miss, they could always take their next throw from wherever the ring lands! Limbo involves no throwing but it does require plenty of agility – how low can kids go? It can be hard for kids to suppress giggles as they try to get their chin, chest and body under the bar without falling over. Why not play some limbo-dancer music in the background so that they can get into the rhythm of the challenge!
If you want to find out about more activities and advice regarding fitness activities for children then the Kids Exercise website (http://bit.ly/1svnqI) is a great resource. It's packed full of fitness tips for pre-schoolers, under-fives and primary school children.
Running, jumping, kicking, climbing and reaching are things young kids love to do and are great ways of using all the muscle groups.
This gives kids confidence in their bodies while the interaction of playing sport with their friends, classmates and family gives them important social skills they can use throughout their life.
Encouraging kids to enjoy sport also has benefits for parents. Letting children exhaust themselves with happy pastimes makes use of their natural energy and often means they are better behaved. It also helps them work up an appetite when it comes to dinner time!
Yellow Moon stocks many educational games which sports-mad kids should find challenging and enjoyable. A Smart Toss Maths Sports Set combines fun maths learning with four sports – bowling, golf, basketball and baseball. Tossing the bean bag can help kids as young as just 3 master basic addition and subtraction skills.
This game is great for children to play with younger or older siblings – if kids are playing the golf version of the game then parents can always introduce a ‘handicap' system to prevent the older ones from having an unfair advantage!
The Reflex Soccer Football Game, as the name suggests, is great for sharpening reflexes. Once the kit arrives all you need do is fill the base with water and inflate the ball and you're ready for action. The recoil action makes it great for footy-mad youngsters to practice their shooting, passing and intercepting skills. Kids should try and use both feet if they are attempting this!
They can also use it to practice their goalkeeping skills; parrying, catching or punching the ball as it springs towards them.
The Reflex – what a game!
Once the kids have worked on their reflexes, they'll want to turn their attention to their shooting skills. A Penalty Shoot Out Football Game provides just the target – goal posts and net - they need to do this.
There are five targets in the goal to shoot at. This allows junior footballers to practice keeping the ball low (by keeping your knee and head over the ball) or shooting high (leaning back). Or they can just have fun by hitting and hoping for the best.
Accuracy is definitely important with Flying Ring Golf. You can take the nine scoring flags to the local park, plant them in the ground and challenge your kids to throw the coloured rings so that they land over the poles.
If they miss, they could always take their next throw from wherever the ring lands! Limbo involves no throwing but it does require plenty of agility – how low can kids go? It can be hard for kids to suppress giggles as they try to get their chin, chest and body under the bar without falling over. Why not play some limbo-dancer music in the background so that they can get into the rhythm of the challenge!
If you want to find out about more activities and advice regarding fitness activities for children then the Kids Exercise website (http://bit.ly/1svnqI) is a great resource. It's packed full of fitness tips for pre-schoolers, under-fives and primary school children.
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