For participants to practice throwing, throwing with accuracy, and catching.
Other Skills:
Coordination
Speed

Divide participants into groups of 5-6 participants.
Each group needs an area that is around 6 metres by 6 metres (of course, this depends on the participants and space available).
Please see attached document for an example of the set up.
Set up one cone with a ball at one corner of each group's area (throwing cone).
Place 3 cones (bases) around the centre of the area, and have them spaced out.
Place another cone (catching cone) at the opposite end of the throwing cone and more in the middle. For the more challenging activity, set up another cone behind the catcher's cone, that will be the runner's cone.

1. Have one participant for each group stand facing the throwing cone, but closer to the back of the area; they are the fielder.
2. Have two participants stand behind the catching cone.
3. The rest of the participants will stand behind the throwing cone.
4. The first participant at the throwing cone will take the tennis ball (or other ball that is being used).
5. That participant will either throw the ball high in the air (pop up) or roll it on the ground (grounder) to the fielder.
6. As soon as the throwing participants throws the ball, the fielder will run to catch it, or get in front of it and pick it up if it was a grounder. At the same time, the first participant at the catching cone will run to one of the cones (bases) in the middle area.
7. As soon as the fielder catches or picks up the ball, they have to throw the ball to the catcher as quick as possible.
8. When the catcher gets to a base, they can yell to the fielder which base they are at (A, B, C; 1, 2, 3 etc...)
9. These participants will stay in the same positions and do this two or three times.
10. After the second or third time, the fielder goes to the end of the catching line, the catcher goes to the end of the throwing line and the thrower becomes the fielder.
11. To make it more challenging, have the catcher start near the bases so they can get to them quicker, and as soon as the ball is caught, picked up, the fielder misses the catch, or the ball goes past them, the participant at the runners cone (which will be further away than the cathers cone) will run to the base the catcher is at and tries to beat the pass from the fielder.
12. Encourage the throwers to change their throw each time and do make the pop ups high and the grounders quick.

Only have one base (cone) set up.
Use hoops instead and the catcher has to stand in the hoop.
Use a football, or foam ball, or soccer ball, or frisbee instead of a tennis ball. Of course, there wouldn't be grounders and with a soccer ball the participants would kick the ball (or do throw-ins).
Use a baseball and baseball gloves.