Archery: | Use lighter bow, rubber tips for arrow. Sitting position, draw targets. |
Bait-fly Casting: | Place target boards on gym floor or field at various distances. Sitting position. |
Badminton: | Four players on each side, each playing zone. "Hoopbird" played with birds or yarn ball. Sitting wheelchair/chair position. |
Bicycling: | Use of tandem, three-wheeler. |
Bowling: | Use plastic detergent bottles or milk cartons. Student may bowl from a chair or sit on the floor. Roll ball through cardboard tube, box, or down a ramp. |
Croquet: | Use plastic mallets and whiffle balls; vary the distance to wicket. |
Gymnastics: | Tumbling, parallel bars, high bar, rings, side horse. |
Golf: | Hit plastic practice ball into old tennis volley nets which are faced with burlap. Make miniature golf course from odds and ends. |
Handball: | One wall, use partially deflated volleyball or smaller playground ball to slow the action of the game. |
Horseshoes: | Rubber shoes can be used in and out of doors. Throw shoes into a box. Sitting position. |
Roller-skating: | Use a walker, scooters, or even wheelchair. |
Shuffleboard: | Shorten distance between scoring zones. Sitting position. |
Swimming: | American Red Cross -- Adapted Aquatics and Methods Manual for Swimming for the Handicapped. 1991. |
Table Tennis: | Use large paddles, make small table-size hoop and play as "hoopbird." Place plywood on sides of the table so the ball will not bounce off of the tables as often. |
Tetherball: | Sit or stand, punch or kick. Make small table size game with broomstick and small rubber ball in a silk stocking. |
Quiet Games: | Nok-hockey, table shuffleboard, pool, darts, bean bag toss gems, box soccer, Frisbee, etc. |