Archery for kids.
What Is Included in This Post:
Why Archery is for Everyone
How Archery for Kids Helps Physical Development
How Archery for Kids Boosts Self-Confidence
How Archery for Kids Provides a Sense of Accomplishment
Archery for kids teaches a growth mindset without the pressure of team competition that is involved with other sports. Archery for kids can help strengthen physical development, boost self-confidence, and give children a sense of accomplishment without the social pressure of other sports that are team lead.
Let’s learn why archery for kids teaches a growth mindset.
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Why Archery is for Everyone
Archery for kids is for everyone of any age. Even children with severe disabilities can enjoy the accomplishments of this fun sport. Archers can practice archery year-round and it is an inexpensive sport.
If space and safety allow, your children can plink arrows in your backyard toward a huge foam target. Your child will enjoy the thrill of hitting a target or knocking some cans down while learning the mastery of archery.
My kids love archery. They can spend a whole afternoon out in the backyard shooting at safe targets. It is so great to hear their stories of improvement and how fun they are having and how much they are proud of themselves for hitting that difficult target from standing further and further back from it.
Children can participate in this sport alone or safely monitored alongside other archers. With how safe arrows are made for toddlers and young kids, any child can participate safely in this sport.
Young Archery Kit
Children of any age can participate in archery. There are bows and arrows on the market for every age and skill level. Toddlers can be provided small bows with safe suction cup arrows.
Teen Archery Kit
Teens can be given a junior bow with safe-tipped arrows that shoot directly into their foam targets or soda cans. Heck, even a cardboard box with a painted target on it will be pleasing for kids to aim their arrows at.
Adult Archery Kit
Adult archery kits are available too so go grab a bow and an arrow and get to shooting at your target boards!
How Archery for Kids Helps Physical Development
Drawing back a bow takes energy and coordination and can help children strengthen their arms and back. Kids get to walk back and forth grabbing their arrows and shooting them back over and over again. Children can increase their mental strength, balance and coordination, reaction time, and muscle strength.
Children will learn the stance of aiming and holding a bow as well as balancing an arrow on the bow. They will learn to focus and concentrate on where they want to hit the target. I can’t help but be proud of them myself!
Physical Development Benefits of Archery:
- Strengthen arms and back.
- Retrieving arrows via walking.
- Increase mental and muscle strength.
- Boost balance and coordination.
- Improve reaction time.
How Archery for Kids Boosts Self-Confidence
Archery for kids can help boost self-confidence by improving their skills and hitting the bull’s eye target over and over with accuracy and precision. A new sense of self-confidence grows within them as they improve their mental and physical skills in hitting the target.
Once their archery skills improve, they develop a sense of accomplishment. Archery for kids can help children overcome anxiety and depression by balancing the mind and body in active meditation and focusing on their target.
Boosting Self-Confidence:
- Improving their skills and hitting the target.
- Increasing accuracy and precision.
- Overcome anxiety and depression through active meditation and focusing on their target.
How Archery for Kids Provides a Sense of Accomplishment
Archery for kids can help children aim for targets and goals and accomplish them on their own, giving them a sense of accomplishment. A sense of accomplishment can be achieved by their improvements in physical and mental development. They feel great about themselves learning to aim and hit a target with perfect accuracy over and over again.
Sense of Accomplishment:
- Improve aiming for targets.
- Increasing physical and mental development.
- A sense of feeling good about themselves.
We went on the hunt before the hunt for the perfect bows! Here, my sons searched for the perfect junior bows that they felt good about and were excited about working with. These junior bows came with a pack of arrows. All we needed now was some targets!
We ended up finding a large foam square target that sets up nicely in the backyard. It had a bull’s eye target and a deer target painted on it. We also got creative with other target ideas by using cardboard boxes, soda cans, 2-liter bottles, and old 5-gallon buckets. There is a picture above somewhere in this post showing the cool foam target we found in the hunting department. Getting a nice large foam box target helps because it can be used over and over again.
Target Ideas:
- Foam square target.
- Cardboard boxes.
- Soda cans.
- 2-liter bottles.
- 5-gallon buckets.
Summary
I hope I have inspired you to teach archery to your kids and get them excited about this fun sport!
Remember to teach your children to NEVER aim their bows with an arrow ready to launch when others are in the target range! Safety rules need to be applied and enforced. Children will want to obey them as they will love this sport and want to continue shooting their fun bows and arrows.
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