It is very essential to teach slowly and work on one part of the stroke at a time. Kick boards are a definite must when teaching this stroke. The flutter kick is again used in the front crawl. Have the children practice their flutter kick with the use of a kick board. By now the children's legs should be mostly straight and toes pointed.
Arms Ask the children if they like chocolate chip cookies.
Ask them to pretend that in front of them is a big plate of homemade chocolate chip cookies. Tell them that can only take one cookie at a time and must alternate hands. One arm at a time, have them bring an arm back, bending their elbow and then reach the arm around, bringing it out of the water and then entering the water to grab a cookie. When they grab a cookie, they should pull it to their stomachs. Then the other arm repeats these actions.