Challenge yourself further by changing the rules – hop on one leg to the end, balance two bean bags on your head, race with a bean bag on a ruler, etc. 10. Noughts and Crosses Any water-based version (of any game) needs your planning to take the situation and safety (eg can everybody swim or be safe in the water. How slippy is the poolside when wet? etc) much more into consideration. I had previously used these bean bags, as well as these shape bean bags, and these letter bean bags— all were good quality and held up to my kids, if you’re not up for the sewing project!)

Play this game alone with your child or divide up the family or friends into two teams. 10. Juggling Make things more challenging again by balancing while walking, or making movements while maintaining balance.In this variation of netball, use a bean bag instead of a ball. Throw the bean bag to each other (or to your own team members if there are a few players) and score by throwing the bean bag into the hoop. Then, mark out an area on the ground as a “pond” and place the fish inside the pond, scattered randomly. Play the fishing toss game with your child.

This is a fun gross-motor game that can also be adapted to get children crossing the midline and learning their left and right sides. Teach them to receive the beanbag from the child on their left with their right hand, pass it to their left hand and pass it to the child on their right. If they use the wrong hand they are out. After doing that for a bit, we mixed it up and tried calling out different combinations, like: “Yellow beanbag to purple plate!” Toss to a Friend Level-up by having hoops at different distances and having to throw the bean bag into each hoop to finish. You can even make it a race if there is more than one player. Add extra fun by assigning points to each hoop, based on their position and level of difficulty. 6. Bowling Step One: If you are outside, draw the noughts and crosses grid on the ground. If you are inside, you can use masking tape that peels away easily from lino, tiles or carpet. The princess joked: “You would never have guessed.” Kate joked she would ‘never have guessed’ Dame Kelly Holmes has a competitive streak (Kin Cheung/PA)Level-up the fun by creating a course and/or timing the race, and see if you can improve on the time. Make this more challenging by changing the rules – hop on one leg to the end, balance two bean bags on your head, race with a bean bag on your ruler, etc.

Something to marking out on the floor (or an outdoor surface) a large 3×3 open grid (using two vertical and two horizontal lines). Size of the grid squares need to be large enough to comfortably allow the objects you are using for the counters (noughts and crosses) to fit within them.The Princess of Wales has admitted becoming a member of the royal family was something she never expected – but then she met and “fell in love” with William. Kate made the admission when she joined a Dame Kelly Holmes Trust event in Bath and took on the double Olympic champion at a game of bean-bag noughts and crosses – but came out second best. Commenting afterwards about the pupils’ chat with the princess, Dame Kelly said she posed a question about Kate’s three children asking if she saw different “traits” in them, and the royal replied “Oh yes, definitely”. The double Olympic champion said when the schoolgirls quizzed Kate about being a “royal”, the princess said it was something “she had to learn”.