ActionBall has been developed by Carryl van Bassen.   Carryl was born and bred in Johannesburg and has always been an incredibly active individual since her childhood and teenage years. 

Carryl was awarded her Springbok colours in life-saving as well as her provincial colours in swimming when she was a mere 16 years old. In addition to these achievements, Carryl was also awarded the State President’s Award for life-saving and her feats in respect thereto. As a result of her love for aquatic activities, this resulted in Carryl opening her own children’s swim school.

After having run a swimming school for 30 years, Carryl was dealing with children on a regular basis and started realising that our children are underactive, unhealthy and often overweight.

Carryl has always loved working with children which sparked an idea to introduce a programme which would encourage a healthy and active future for all children. As a result, ActionBall was introduced as this programme to ensure that kids would learn, as well as enjoy, being active and outdoor children again.

ActionBall has been a success ever since its inception and celebrates over 20 exciting years in the national market

Franchises have been established in all province of South Africa. You can find a franchise near you.

To Kendal and Jenny,

On behalf of the children of Growing Tots Play and Preschool, I would like to thank you for making Mondays something special for the children to look forward to.

It has not only taught the children to remember the days of the week, but it has also taught them to understand time value.

You have both been an inspiration to the children, and they look forward to each lesson with you as it is always exciting, something new and enjoyable. At the end of each lesson the children have chatted excitedly amongst themselves and even showed each other what they learned that morning.

My philosophy is ‘Through Play We Develop a Love for Learning”. That seems to be that is what you believe in as well. Years back I taught Top tots, which is based on almost the same concept as Action Ball. The difference is that you have made Gross Motor activities an integral part of your programme.

I strongly urge all Preschools to implement Action Ball as part of their programme, as it adds so much value to a child.

Kind Regards,
Denise Cooper

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