Life skill-building on the tennis court includes a full range of sportsmanship, group, leadership and teamwork activities to reinforce relationship and conflict resolution principles. Practical essential skills such as using currency and making change are easy to mix with tennis skills to make learning fun, engaging and memorable.
Subjects, Topics | Activities |
Teamwork | Build a human chain to hand off tennis balls or racquets or both, moving them from one location to another in a pattern (e.g. 3 balls, 1 racquet), creatively make rules and have a race |
Build a Rube Goldberg contraption | |
Cooperative Play | Partner-up and set records or compete for most rallys, most balls moved from point to point per unit time, and/or combination of physical and mental tasks (record answers on markerboard) |
Sportsmanship, Conflict Resolution | Introduce bad judgement/behavior in situational play, ask players to find resolution |
Currency | Collect tokens representing currency to accumulate a specific amount or to make change |