"You Can Never Touch the Ball With Your Hands!"

Putting Tyler in Soccer Tots this fall was the BEST decision. He absolutely loved everything about it. He loved learning the different soccer skills, he loved being around a bunch of kids his age, and he LOVED Coach Steve.

Coach Steve really was fantastic. He was amazing with the kids and taught them soccer skills in a way that really worked for these 2-3 year old kids. They played silly games like:

• Don't Wake the Dinosaur: The "dinosaur" (Coach Steve) would be sleeping by all his eggs (balls) and the kids had to go get a ball and kick it back to the castle (net) using their "little kicks". If the dinosaur woke up, they had to stop, put their foot on top of the ball, and say "go to sleep". They could only continue on their journey to the castle when the dinosaur had gone back to sleep.
• Building "ice cream cones" with cones and a ball, and then kicking just the ice cream part.
• Kicking balls through hula hoops.
• Follow the leader through obstacle courses.
• Feeding the whale (net) fishes (jerseys) and meatballs (balls).

Coach Steve also had a song that he sang with the kids each week that Tyler thought was pretty amazing. He loved singing it at home during the week. It was so cute. It is sung to the tune "If You're Happy and You Know It"

We all love to play soccer with our friends.

We all love to play soccer with our friends.

We all love to get together.

We all love to get much better.

We all love to play soccer with our friends.

But we NEVER touch the ball with our hands!

We never touch the ball with our hands!

We can kick it, we can head it, 

We can chest it, we can knee it,

But we never touch the ball with our hands!

Whenever they got to the word "hands" in the song, the kids would raise their hands in the air and would say "hands" really loudly. Tyler especially loved that part, haha.

I will definitely sign Tyler up again. It was so good to get out of the house, have an organized activity led by an adult other than myself, and let Tyler burn some energy while he was doing something he loved, while at the same time learning skills for a sport I'm sure he will enjoy throughout his youth and maybe even beyond.