FLOWER SHOP & FRISBEES 🌸🎁

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.

🪶 FEATHERS (Under 3s)

• 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

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