A sports mash-up.
Children taking part in the Kelly Sports holiday programme have been enjoying turning sports inside out by combining different games into new versions of popular sports.
Holiday programme participant Hannah Shoae (5) explained the rules of "netball-cricket".
"You have a tennis ball, but you can’t run with it, so you have to throw it to another player."
"You also have to guard people."
The goal was to hit cricket wickets with the tennis ball, but players had to throw from outside a square area of cones placed around the wickets, Hannah said.
Operations manager Sarah Taylor said children taking part in the programme had enjoyed different sporting themes each day.
The sports mash-up was a hybrid of sports children could choose to play.
"Being able to combine two sports gets the kids thinking about using their skills in different ways," she said.
Combining favourite games to create a new activity also encouraged the children to work as a team, she said.
The holiday programmes had been very popular with a second group of children enjoying activities based at Kaikorai Valley College.
"We’ve had really awesome numbers."
The programme continues until January 20.
