Boundaries Baseball Game

Boundaries Baseball helps children understand and respect boundaries. Boundaries are essential for positive relationships with peers and adults; children who act out are often asking for the security of clear boundaries and the skills needed to respect them. Boundaries Baseball utilizes a baseball diamond format as a visual reminder for not going out of bounds. As part of the action of the play, students will also have opportunities to toss a “ball” so that it stays within the boundaries of a “strike zone.” Game cards teach four kinds of boundaries: (1) Saying and accepting “No,” (2) Managing strong emotions (called feelings in the game), (3) Respecting personal space and property, and (4) Relationship/communication limits (called friendship in the game). Players use a special spinner to see what happens for each pitch. For example, they could get a strike, a ball, a single, or a pop fly out. Players move their pawns, counterclockwise around the diamond. Their pawns are baseball