As the evenings get lighter it means more hours to stay outside and make the most of every extra hour.
Get your kid’s friends to sign up to a rounders league, and change the team members around each week to make sure it doesn’t get too competitive! (It’s also a great excuse to catch up with other Mums over a flask of coffee in the park.)
What you need:
- Two teams of nine kids, or as near to that number as possible
- Four base markers (jumpers work well)
- Rounders bat and ball
What to do:
- Organise two teams of nine players
- Each team takes one turn batting while the other team fields
- The bowler stands in the bowler’s mound and throws underhand to the batter
- If the batter hits a ball, it goes into a play
- The batter can then run to the first base
- A batter is ‘out’ if three good balls pass him by, if a fielder tags the base before he arrives at it, or if he attempts to take over a base already occupied by another batter
- Runs are scored by batters running around the bases
- Each batting team’s inning lasts until the opposite team records three ‘outs’
