Tee Ball | Playworks

To develop teamwork, verbal communication and hand-eye coordination.

Skills Practiced: Throwing, catching, fielding, batting, base running and position playing.

Additional equipment needed: tennis balls or plastic wiffle balls, bases, baseball tee or a tall cone, one plastic or foam bat.
Set up the field with the bases and with mark the tee as home plate.
Review the concepts of Softball and Baseball that you want to teach throughout the game.
Review safety rules, especially the Swing, Drop, Run rule for the batting.
Teach the game to the students and then ask them to explain the game back to you.
Demonstrate hitting, running the bases and fielding (with a pass to a teammate).

Divide students into two teams.
The fielding team gets distributed in their positions; everyone is in the field, even if you need to have more than nine in the field.
Give the batting team a batting order and line them up in a safe area to the side of the field.
This game is played following the softball & baseball rules; with the exception that the pitcher does not pitch the ball to the batter.
You are the pitcher and control the play of the game. Play starts when you place the ball on the tee and the batter hits the ball off the tee.
Play stops when the ball is returned back to you.

Teams switch sides when either:

Throw ball. The fielding team is set up in the regular baseball/softball format. The batter throws the ball into the field from home plate and then proceeds to run the bases.
Fielders can catch a thrown ball in the air or tag the runner for an out, just like in regular baseball.
Play ends when the catcher at home plate has the ball.
This is a good alternative when the yard is too crowded to risk someone getting hit by a batted ball or a swinging bat.
For young grades, have students run the bases without calling outs.