FLOWER SHOP & FRISBEES 🌸🎁
🎯 Objective:
FLOWER SHOP & FRISBEES 🌸🎁
Time: 10–15 mins total (includes interlude + throw progression)
Ages: 2.5 – 7 years
Focus: Matching, travelling with ball control, object manipulation, and target throwing.
🧠 SETUP
Flower Beds: Spread round cones randomly across the middle of the hall/space (like flowers in a meadow).
Vases: Place tall cones (mostly orange—add matching small cones or rubber tubs on top for colour coding) along one side of the hall.
Buckets (Throwing Targets): Add buckets behind the tall cones for the Frisbee & Throws progression.
🪶 How to play
Kids sit in a circle while you introduce the story.
Ask: “Do you know what Valentine’s/ mothers Day is?” or “Have you ever given flowers to someone?”
Explain: “We’re making beautiful bouquets and delivering them to special vases!”
Children carry an upside-down racket (handle in air) like a bouquet
Walk over to the flower bed.
Carefully balance a round cone (flower) on the handle of racket to make a bouquet
Walk back and match it to a tall cone of the same colour.
Keep repeating until the flowers are all picked.
💡 Encourage motor skills, balance, and colour recognition.
🎈 PROGRESSIONS (Over 3s)
Travelling with Ball:
Use a soft football or balloon to travel with to add a coordination challenge.
To the flower bed: Dribble with a racket or like a hockey stick.
Returning: Dribble with feet, trying to keep ball under control.
Add Challenge:
Hold the racket tray in one hand while dribbling with the other (encourage switching).
Add time-based challenges or fun sounds for colour-matching correctly.
🎯 ADD ON | FRISBEES
While the kids are working, place a line of tubs behind the bouquets (throwing distance based on age) .
After finishing their flower deliveries, children “spin round” and prepare for a frisbee challenge:
🧸 Frisbee Cones
Children “frisbee” toss their flower cones into buckets placed behind the tall cones.
Encourage matching colours again.
“Can you get your red flower into the red bucket?”
Technique, sideways on and flick out the back of hand
When you run out of cones, introduce beanbags and/or balls to throw into buckets