Ready, Set, Go!
Help your kids complete skill challenges and push themselves to their limits!
| Target: | Counselors |
| Time frame: | 30 to 60 minutes |
| Members: | Everyone |
| Type of tool: | Activities |
| Ages: | 5-6 years, 7-8 years, 9-12 years, 13 and Over |
| Group size: | One group, More than one group |
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Physical activity
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Description
This tool offers trick shots to your group of kids. It allows you to dissect step by step the different motor skills related to soccer, hockey, frisbee, etc.
To ensure that everyone can participate at the same time, you can set up your equipment at several stations and separate your group into teams. Give them a certain amount of time at each of the stations and invite them to change workshops when the time is up.
The tool includes a detailed document and an individual grid so that each young person can note his or her evolution. It is also possible to invent new skills and divide them into levels !
The activity is divided into 5 levels. Each youth starts at Level 1 and progresses to their own abilities up to Level 5. For example, for a soccer kick, level 1 is to kick the ball at a reasonable distance from the goal. We add an additional difficulty to each level up to level 5 where the objective is to kick the ball into the top corner of the goal while spinning on themselves.
In collaboration with Sport for Life and Participaction.
Goal(s)
Ready, Set, Go! aims to give challenges to young people to allow them to work on their motor skills and progress. By respecting their own pace, all young people have the opportunity to experience success at their own level, which promotes the development of self-confidence.
Tips and tricks
Rather than using this tool in a single game session, you can also organize, every day or every week, “challenge” periods and give a fixed time to your young people to work on their challenges during these periods!
Required material
Depending on the number of youths per team (for example, if there are 5 youths per team, you will need about 5 copies of each item) :
- Soccer balls
- Hockey sticks
- Hockey ball
- Basketballs
- Handballs
- Soccer goal (1 for the team)
- Hockey goal (1 for the team)
- Basketball hoop (only 1 for the team)
- Tchoukball trampoline (1 for the team)
- Individual printed sheets (one for each participant)
- Pencils (one for each participant)
Let’s have a chat!
Here are subjects to discuss with your campers before and after the activity. Ask them questions to see what they learnt.
- What challenge did you like best?
- Is there a challenge that you found difficult and that you are proud to have overcome?
- How do you feel when you succeed in a challenge?
- How do you feel when you haven’t reached the level you wanted to reach?
- Do you think starting with level 4 is a good idea?
