Paper Plate Sock Toss

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When you need an easy indoor activity that gets your kids moving, this paper plate sock toss is a simple DIY game that helps kids practice their throwing skills, work on hand-eye coordination, and just good fun active play using supplies you’ll likely already have at home. All wins in my book!

Set up the Paper Plate Toss

Cut the center out of a few paper plates. You can do as many as you like, we did three.

Tape, or tie yard to each of the paper plates. And then tape them in an open area to hang them. We used a large doorway.

Roll socks into balls (how else do you fold your socks!?). Or use a soft ball.

Then let the fun begin. Have your kids aim and try to toss the ball through the center, cut out part of the paper plates.

Make it Fun & Challenging!

You can adjust things based on your child’s ability. Adjust the height of the paper plates. Adjust where their throwing line to toss from.

Make it a math game and assign different values to each plate. Have them add them up as they target a number.

Challenge them to how many tosses can they make in a row.

Start up close, and have them step back with every toss they make. How far back can they get?

Try different size sock balls. Is it easier to use the baby’s socks, or dad’s socks?

Let me know how this goes on your next rainy day! Its a pretty easy activity to set up, clean up is easy (maybe beware of what might behind your targets!).

I bet your child will be asking to this one again and again.