Fun with balls (Chad Valley Playballs)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Chad Valley Playballs
Date:	01/07/07 (567 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: good for sensory development

Disadvantages: balls get everywhre take ages to pick up

I must appologise for the embaressment that I caused dooyoo staff when they tried to find the website so that they could add this product. I was emailed that they had trouble as when they googled funballs the sites they found were basically porn sites . So if you thought this was going to be about those sort of fun balls I do appologise .


Balls lots of balls, I bought 4 of these bags of playballs each bag contains 100 balls.
I have for several; weeks thought I would like to buy a pool and some balls for my grandchildren to play in either at their house or mine; daughter refused the offer. ( too many balls to pick up after the children play with them she said ) so I bought some for my house. The balls I bought are CHAD VALLEY ones from Woolworths they come in zippered plastic PVC carry bag containing 100 of balls. I bought 4 bags each bag cost me £4.99 each normal price £6.99 they are on sale at the mo. I noticed in the early learning shop nearby 100 balls cost £10 no doubt they may be better quality but for my use I think the woollies balls will be fine... I also bought a Chad valley junior blow up pool to put them in.

Let me describe the balls.

These are PVC balls, each measuring 65mm diameter. It says they are brightly coloured well I have seen brighter coloured balls for a ball pool but these are more muted a colour in each bag is a mixture of red, green, yellow or blue. These balls are soft and squeezable they have a smooth surface. There is a seam around the middle where I think the two halves have been joined in the factory. I noticed this because I felt it as my blind pupil might.

Use of these balls.

The primary reason that I bought these pools was to use in a pool for my grandchildren’s sensory play. These balls can also be used for other ball games, skittles, and catch. They atre4 soft and light so will not hurt if they hit a child when balls thrown about.

Ball pools are found in many play centres small pools for a class room at a nursery and large ones at sports centres/ tumble gyms. I work in a special needs school and we have a ball pit we use to stimulate our special needs children’s senses.

These balls are ideal for sensory exploration by a child with visual impairment. Touch and tactile exploration are a way a visually impaired child will learn.
They will learn by tasting, (all children /babies learn a lot by putting things in their mouths). By feeling what is it like to sit or stand on , have a ball roll along your arm or put on your head a child will learn what will happen if they push or brush against an item that feel like this they will learn what is safe . A child will learn about what happens to the balls as they move their body, wriggle and you sink into the balls deeper.

All children learn by experience. Playing in a ball pool will help develop physical coordination.
Playing games or just sitting in a ball pool will help their visual skills fixing and following a ball as it moves; Hand eye co-ordination will develop and be practiced. . Learning cause and effect what will happen if?
Looking at and touching the balls will help develop eye-hand co-ordination

As well as stimulating the senses sitting in a ball pit can be calming, there’s something about touch that is reassuring and comforting. For a hyper energetic child play some gentle music to them while they are sitting in the ball pool. A ball pool is therapeutic a safe environment. If you wish to you can add different textured objects to the ball pool for your child to find , fur fabric or different textured balls.
These fun balls from Woolworths would be good for filling a poll with to make it into a ball pool a cheap paddling pool would be perfect (that’s what I bought for my grandchildren)

As well as using these balls to fill a ball pool why not put them on the trampoline and let your children bounce them up and down, or put them on a parachute and let your group of children toss the balls up in the air.

Of course these balls can be used for more traditional games they are soft so do not hurt much when thrown to a child and it hits them. These balls can be used for rolling ball games too.
Play a game throwing them into a net or a bucket practicing aiming for ball games . This is a fun way to tidy them up at the end of the play session as with so many balls it’s a bit tedious for the adult to tidy them all away.

Oh go on do have fun sit and experience sitting in a pool filled

Summary: lots of small balls in a bag for playing with , adding to a ball pit .