Games for Swimming Lessons Pack 2

Explore how a tripod of familiarisation, buoyancy, and mobility forms the solid base of swimming education, with each leg equally important.

Prioritize water familiarisation as the key part of the tripod, ensuring fun as kids learn buoyancy, mobility, and essential swimming skills through games that respect their pace.

Learn buoyancy as a core factor in swimming education, focusing on back flotation for young learners, and games that ease water in the eyes and support survival and backstroke.

Build aquatic mobility by progressing from paddle and kick drills to advanced stroke techniques, enabling movement in any direction, with upcoming guidance on the game elements to watch.

Create fully planned swimming lesson games with clear start and end, rules, and winner criteria for streaming education, delivering education outcomes while maximizing participation, fun, and safety.

Explore color-coded games mapping to swimming outcomes, with white for water feminization, red buoyancy, yellow mobility, blue submersion, pink opening eyes, and a printable cheat sheet.

Explore the importance of consistent breathing technique in swimming, including mouth vs nose exhalation, long, steady exhalations, and repetition-based drills to move breathing skills from short-term to long-term memory.

Develop confidence in opening eyes under the water without goggles, manage blur and itchiness, and practice safe directions, with end-of-session games reinforcing this key swimming skill.

Submersion starts with gradual water conditioning and consistent cues, building comfort for students with or without a baby/toddler background, while games encourage gentle water exposure without pushing.

Explore how to use swimming teaching aids attached to swimmers effectively to make lessons fun and accelerate learning, while avoiding dependence and false confidence from equipment.

practice diving only with an instructor, prioritize shallow entries, avoid deep dives and bottom-of-pool grabbing games, and follow depth guidance around 1.2 to 2 meters as students progress.

Practice breath control by blowing bubbles through a hoop, counting them, and competing to beat the instructor's tally, with hands on the wall for support.

Engage learners in back float buoyancy with a noodle and mirror activity that helps maintain a head-back posture and look at themselves in the mirror while practicing steady back kicks.

play the talking to the fishy game underwater, using a bubble-blowing toy to simulate fish language, listen to what the fish says, and have students introduce themselves or share ages.

lead students through the airplane game to boost water mobility as they kick, one on each arm, with the engine as their ticket and faster kicks move the instructor.

Use the toys watching us swimming game to motivate kids during backstroke and freestyle drills, using a favorite toy to watch from the pool edge, bubbles and high-fives.

Learn to build motorbike props from pool noodles for a fun water game that teaches eggbeater and bicycle kicks, while guiding students through bike-style races and freestyle moves.

Guide beginners to grab sinkers in the pool, starting with chin in water and blowing bubbles. Progress to head underwater, holding the sinker, and grab sinkers independently as confidence grows.

Guide students through the opening your eyes underwater game by hiding sinkers of different colors, having them remove their goggles, place their heads under water, and identify the color shown when they surface. Address colorblindness considerations, offer color choices for all learners, and use pool demonstrations to reinforce color recognition with colors like blue, orange, and yellow.

Guide students through the jump and high five water game, helping beginners jump, go under water, and hold hands, then progress to solo jumps and stronger horizontal pushes.

Conclude your course by downloading or printing your certificate, and join professional networks for babies and toddlers' swimming education in Australia, while exploring courses to expand knowledge and learn-to-swim.