Sunday, August 11, 2013

Play Ball!

A trip to the park today lead to a wonderful new game for us! 
Play Ball!!! 
Beside one of our parks is a sports complex with 6 ball fields, room for youth football, and tons of space for picnics and such. We needed to, literally, run some energy off so we started pretend baseball. 


It was great to practice naming shapes using the bags and home plate.

We got creative with the rectangle for the pitchers mound and squares for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd - our fields pick them up after each game.

It was a blast to stand at home, let little man pitch to me and run the bases. He took turns "batting" and running the bases!




Realizing that each ball field was numbered we quickly went on a number hunt. It is an awesome way for Little Man to practice spotting numbers rather than letters and to have fun counting. We had a blast giving the kids the vocabulary to have fun on the fields. Fun conversations came afterward about running, bases, baseball, home-runs, etc. !







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