Warm Up Ball Skills Activities for Year 1

A progressive warm-up where students perform different exercises for 10 seconds each

Individual ball control practice focusing on stopping skills with hands

Students develop ball tracking skills and ready positions through detective-themed movement activities

Students explore different ways to move with a ball using their hands to demonstrate prior knowledge

Individual ball handling to develop confidence and hand-eye coordination

Calm cool-down combining gentle stretching with reflection on ball skills learned

Dynamic warm-up game where students with balls become taggers, promoting spatial awareness and ball handling

Active tag game where taggers use balls to gently tag others before passing the ball and swapping roles

Students explore balancing beanbags on different body parts to develop body awareness and control.

Individual challenge where students throw beanbags up and catch them before they hit the ground

Children move around with balls and quickly place specific body parts on their ball when called

Students use their ball to touch different body parts on command, developing body awareness and ball handling skills

Dynamic warm-up game where students move around the area, then collect balls from cones and transfer them to empty cones on command

Dynamic warm-up where students redistribute balls between cones while performing various movements

Calm stretching routine combined with reflection on lesson learning and demonstration of improved skills

Dynamic warm-up where children follow teacher movements in circular formation

Students work in pairs taking turns to lead and follow using different locomotion patterns

Partners take turns leading and following while exploring space safely

Dynamic warm-up where children travel around space and must freeze instantly on command

Dynamic warm-up where children travel using different movements and freeze on command

Dynamic warm-up developing spatial awareness and controlled movement through freeze commands

A fun warm-up activity that assesses students' kicking ability while building confidence through superhero roleplay

Dynamic warm-up game using underarm throwing to prepare for overarm throwing skills

Dynamic warm-up game where children move around cones and quickly find one to place on their head when commanded