Six Basic Ball Games To Promote Children Development

By Author: Danica Wang
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Ball game is relatively old children's games. In the ball game, children can not only train wrist strength, but also exercise the hand's ability to control direction, improve hand-eye coordination, and enhance the child's rapid response capability. The ball's rebound characteristics enable the child to think and understand the direction change of things' movement, and improve the child's ability to predict the direction of motion.

After the children learn to walk independently, they need to meet the development and formation of advanced motor skills, such as jumping, imitate body movement, catching balls, rope skipping, etc. The improvement and exercise of children motor skills need parents' guidance and make out a set of scientific training program in line with the characteristics of children development according to the children's physical characteristics.

The following are six basic ball games for parents to develop children's intelligence.

First, catch the ball

Keep a certain distance away from the child, and throw the ball gently to him, encourage the child to catch it. In the beginning, you ...
... can hold the child's hands to help him catch the ball to give him a sense of achievement, and stimulate his interest in the game. After a few practices, encourage the child to finish himself. Help to train the child's hand- eye coordination and rapid response capability.

Second, catch the rebound ball

On the base of the above practice, you can first let the ball rebound on the ground and then let the child to catch. Help to improve children's hand-eye coordination and let them have certain predictability about the changed motion direction of things.

Third, learn to pat and hold the ball

Next the child can learn to pat the ball and then hold the ball. This is difficult for the 2 years old baby to master and you can guide him and practice step by step. If the 3 years old children can do it well, you can teach them to continuously pat the ball. Help to train the advanced continuous motor skills.

Four, play bowling

Use the wasted cans as target, and let children sit in 2m away from the target to roll the ball past down the cans. Help to develop hand-eye coordination and improve the space perception capabilities.

Fifth, kick the ball

Let children stand in the front of the wall, first learn to push the ball towards the wall, then after being familiar, he can learn to kick with feet. Help to increase the children's muscle strength and control ability.

Sixth, roll the ball

Keep more than 2 meters away from the child and sit on the ground face to face. Then roll the ball with the child. Help to improve the child's wrist strength and hand-eye coordination, and promote parent-child relationship.

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