{"id":70726,"date":"2020-04-15T11:28:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T15:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=70726"},"modified":"2020-05-21T17:20:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T21:20:26","slug":"balloon-fun-for-wacky-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/healthy-active-living\/healthy-active-living-all-grades\/active-participation\/balloon-fun-for-wacky-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloon Fun for Wacky Wednesday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-70727\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/olesia-misty-_-txX-7CCCk-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/olesia-misty-_-txX-7CCCk-unsplash.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/olesia-misty-_-txX-7CCCk-unsplash-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/olesia-misty-_-txX-7CCCk-unsplash-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/olesia-misty-_-txX-7CCCk-unsplash-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/olesia-misty-_-txX-7CCCk-unsplash-165x248.jpg 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/olesia-misty-_-txX-7CCCk-unsplash-1140x1711.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/olesia-misty-_-txX-7CCCk-unsplash-945x1418.jpg 945w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/olesia-misty-_-txX-7CCCk-unsplash-750x1125.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Active Participation: Fun Games and Challenges<\/h5>\n<p>Balloons are fun for kids and great for playing indoors. If you don\u2019t have a balloon, you can use some recycled paper rolled into a ball, or a beach ball (if you are outside, or have a large enough empty space). These games can be played by children of all ages, by themselves, or with others in their home.<\/p>\n<h3>Skills being developed:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>hand-eye coordination, gross and fine motor control, timing, and the ability to track moving objects in the air<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Game \u201cRules\u201d<\/h2>\n<h3>Balloon Volleyball or Tennis<\/h3>\n<p>This can be done standing or sitting; on your own, or with a partner.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Goal (if playing with a partner): count how many volleys back and forth you can do without the balloon hitting the floor or walls. Variation: create a net (e.g. a string going across a distance between two chairs, or the back of a couch) to volley over. Make a goal (e.g. 20 volleys without the balloon hitting the floor), then try to beat it!\n<ul>\n<li>For Tennis, the same rules apply but you use a racquet (e.g., fly swatter, a paper plate taped to a tube or stick, a real racket, or a paddle) to hit the balloon over the net.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Goal (if playing on your own, it is sometimes called Balloon Juggling): count how many times you touch the balloon without it hitting the floor or walls. Make a goal for yourself (e.g. to have 20 touches) and then try to beat it!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Balloon Batting or Balloon Soccer<\/h3>\n<p>For the batting you can use a cardboard tube (e.g., from wrapping paper, or paper towel tube); for soccer, only a balloon is needed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Goal (for Balloon Batting): to toss the balloon and strike it with a \u201cbat\u201d. Try to hit a target on the floor (e.g., a tile on the floor), or on the wall, or an object like the back of a chair. Increase the distance to the target, to challenge yourself.<\/li>\n<li>Goal (for Balloon Soccer): to kick the balloon at a target, or through a target (e.g. goal posts).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/activeforlife.com\/activities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Activities for Life<\/a> (Click the link to see visuals and detailed descriptions of these and other games)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balloons are fun for kids and great for playing indoors. If you don\u2019t have a balloon, you can use some recycled paper rolled into a ball, or a beach ball (if you are outside, or have a large enough empty space). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72478,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70726","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70726\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}