Skill Development: Targeting a Specific Skill
The key to getting children active and keeping them interested in developing their physical skills, is to keep it fun. According to Golf Digest, the best way to teach children beginning golf skills is through games. A very important golf skill to learn is the skill of putting. Kids of all ages love mini-putt, so why not make your own course and have fun putting!
Equipment needed:
- Recyclables such as cardboard boxes, plastic containers, plastic lids, scrap paper, or paper tubes, etc
- Something to use for a golf putter, such as a toy or real putter, a broomstick handle or stick that you tape a rectangular piece of cardboard or plastic to its end can also work
- A small ball, or you can make one with crumpled up paper and tape
- You may want markers, scissors and/or tape
Game #1: Indoor Mini-Putt
- Use any household items (e.g a box that you cut holes or openings into, or different size plastic containers that you lie on their sides to tap a ball into)
- Create an indoor mini-putt hole to test out your putting skills.
- Choose a point system and different ways to earn points and then encourage your family members to try it out.
- Challenge yourself to reach a particular score, or to get a “hole-in-one” at each hole.
Game #2: Mini-Putt Course
- Similar to Game #1, use any household items to create 5 or more mini-putt “holes” (e.g. small boxes or plastic containers that are placed on their sides and secured somehow can work well, or building blocks or Lego can be used to build “houses” with openings for a small ball to be tapped into, paper tubes are also great materials to use)
- Design a course. Be creative and don’t forget to add a few trickier “holes”
- Add a point value of your choice to each hole.
- Challenge a family member to a friendly game of mini-putt
Adapted from: the Blue Jays Unstoppable Challenges site
Categories: Elementary