According to Jeff Pill, NHSA Director of Coaching, children tend to be highly critical of their own skills. Use the games below to engage kids and build self-confidence without the pressure of winning or losing. After everyone has spent a few minutes stretching their bodies, start by focusing on the interaction with the ball. Each person should take a turn tossing up the ball and stopping it with one foot.
Players sit in a circle and use their hands to try to take the ball away from other players.
The person who is it must stand up and dribble the ball around the circle, keeping the ball away but within the other players reach. Once the ball is captured by a sitting person, that person becomes it. Each child in the middle of the area should have a ball. In addition, have someone without a ball in the area. That player s job is to take away another person s ball by kicking it away.