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Equipment: How to Make Balloon Racquets for Your Physical Education Classes

Dick Moss

Here's how to make inexpensive balloon racquets using coat hangers, old panty hose, and some masking or athletic tape. It takes only a few minutes to produce each racquet.

Construction Instructions

How to Make a Rebound Racquet
You can easily turn your coat hanger racquet into

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a balloon rebounder.

  • Children can then hit the balloon - when it reaches the end of the yarn they should jerk it back so the balloon returns for another hit.


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     Finished Racquet
    Finished Racquet

     


    References

    1.  Guy Bailey, The Ultimate Homeschool Physical Education Game Book,
    Educators Press, 2013.

    2. Marianne Torbert, "Growing as One Plays With a Balloon," Teaching Elementary Physical Education, November 2006.

     

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