Most physical education and sports programs suffer from a common problem-lack of money. This eBook will help you stretch your budget by showing you how to make sports equipment from scratch-and save lots of moola in the process. You'll learn how to make your own medicine balls, portable goals, hula hoops, plyometric boxes, wobble boards, cold packs, practice hurdles, vertical jump devices and much, much more.
It also has great ideas on how to adapt and recyle common items for use in your PE program. For example, did you know you can use a blanket as a chipping green; duct tape to hem nylon sweat pants; badminton shuttles as golf tees; or tennis balls as floor markers?
Covering 10 different sports, fitness and physical education areas, this is a book that coaches, PE teachers, parents and young athletes can't do without!
SPORTS & PE EQUIPMENT YOU CAN MAKE YOURSELF
BASEBALL & SOFTBALL EQUIPMENT
* Make Baseball Fences More Spectator-Friendly
* Use Tarps Instead of Hitting Nets
* Make Your Own Batting Tees
* Wooden Paddle Glove for Better Catching
* Dry Your Baseballs in a Microwave Oven
* Laundry Bag Baserunner
GOLF EQUIPMENT
* Make Golf Tees from Old Badminton Shuttles
* Schoolyard Chipping Green
HEALTH CLASS EQUIPMENT
* Make a Lung & Diaphragm Out of a Pop Bottle
* Practice Artificial Resuscitation With Milk-Jug Mannikins
* Make a Paper-Tube Muscle Model
HOCKEY EQUIPMENT
* For a New Hockey Challenge, Make a Goalie Board
MISCELLANEOUS
* Make a Portable Coach's Chair
* Use Duct Tape Instead of a Tailor
* Fingertip Moisteners are the Answer to Ball Gripping Problems
PHYSICAL EDUCATION EQUIPMENT
* Your Own Portable Goals
* Make Your Own Designer Streamers
* Softer, Safer Floor Hockey Balls You Can Make Yourself
* Garbage Bag Balloon Balls
* Make Quoits Out of an Old Garden Hose
* Make Your Own Hula Hoops for Spin Hopping
* Letter Hop Sheets
* Tennis Ball Markers
* Make Your Own Tin Can Walkers
* Comet Ball
* Ghost Balls
* Basketball Man & Soccer Guy-New Uses for Old Balls
* Old Tires Are a P.E. Gold Mine
* Make Your Own Plastic Bottle Bats
* Sumo Wrestling Gear from Old Inner Tubes
* Make Your Own Torso Roller
* Using Rope to Mark Court Lines on Grass
* Use Your Volleyball Standards for Indoor Tetherball
SOCCER EQUIPMENT
* Teach Heading With a Soccer Sock
STRENGTH EQUIPMENT
* Make Your Own Vertical-Jump Improvement Device
* Building A Plyometrics Box
* Homemade Medicine Balls-Quick, Cheap and Tough
* Make Your Own Medicine Ball
* Suspended Medicine Ball Exercises
* Weight Room Grid
* How to Reupholster Torn Weight Benches
* Wall Chart for a Level Bench Press
* Surgical Tubing Handles
* Soup Cans for Hand Weights
* Make a T-Bar With a Barbell and a Towel
* Lift Firewood to Improve Grip Strength
* Wooden Plates Make it Easier for Beginners
TENNIS EQUIPMENT
* Introduce Tennis Using Homemade Racquets
TRACK & FIELD EQUIPMENT
* Athletes Prefer Training Over These Homemade Hurdles
* Make PVC Hurdles More Visible
* Pizza Boxes Make Good Practice Hurdles
* 400m Hurdle Training Aid
* Make Your Own Relay Batons
* Markers for Relay Exchanges
* Make a 200m Track on Your Schoolyard
* Make Your Own Sewer Pipe Javelin Case
* Make Your Own Indoor Practice Javelins
* Traffic Cones for Javelin Practice
* Water-Bottle High Jump Crossbar Rope
TRAINING-ROOM EQUIPMENT
* Make Your Own Wobble Board
* Make a Stationary Bicycle Into an Arm Ergometer
* Fanny Pack First Aid Kit
* Fertilizer Can Save Money on Instant Cold Packs
* Home-Made Cold Packs
* Protect your Students With Diaper Bags
* Make Snow-Packs Colder
VOLLEYBALL EQUIPMENT
* How to Customize Volleyball Net Heights for Better Learning
* A High-Tech Blocking Trainer for Pennies
