Imaginary ball..

Have you played with an imaginary ball? Oh! it is lots of fun. The other day I went to a birthday party and children from age of 4 yrs to 9 yrs were there. To keep them occupied I decided to play a game with them. I told them we all had to hold our balls and play with them. It was very interesting how open the younger ones were and immediately held the balls (imaginary) in their hands. I did the same, the older children just watched and refused to join in. We bounced our balls, threw it up and caught it, we even tried to catch each others balls.
Then we tried to explore it further and decided to play dodge ball. This was the fun part, we stood in a circle with one child in the middle and we started throwing the ball. One child went very near the child who was in the middle and threw the ball at her. This child started shouting,'cheating! cheating!, she came near and threw it at me, not fair!' :-)) It was like playing a real game.

We have started playing it at home now. Try it out .. it is one of the ways which will help in bonding and yes! lots of excitement. Get the elder ones to join it.. if we loosen up and bring out the child in us, it will help children be a child instead of growing up too soon.