It's March and the heght of basketball season. Why not incorporate basketball into our treatment sessions? Here are some fun adaptations to games and other activities you can do this month!
Play Horse: You have to spell the word before you can move on. To play- pick a word and stand near the basketball net. You have to shoot once and make a basket to get the first letter of that word. Then move to a new location and now you have to toss two baskets for the second letter and so on until you have shot a basket for every letter in each word. You can't move to the next spot until you shot for the letter.
Bounce Pass: Practice passing to peers using a marker on the floor. Can your child hit the marker on the floor before bouncing the ball to a friend. If you don't have a partner, you can always have your child use the wall, throw, bounce on floor, hit the wall and try to catch on the return.
Don't Need a Hoop: You don't have to have a hoop to play basketball, you can use hula hoops or pool noodles, these larger hoops will make scoring a basket a littel easier. You can either tape it to the wall and have a hoop similiar to your basketball hoop. Or hang a hula hoop from the basketball net, hook or you can use your swing hook to hold your hoop.
