Ball games are popular throughout the world. Balls can be made from many different materials, including grass, string, paper, wood, animal skin, clay, rubber, plastic and scraps of cloth.

In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have made balls from emu feathers, kangaroo and possum skin, grass and paperbark, clay and woven strips of pandanus leaf.

You can make a ball from rubber bands (also called elastic bands). Scrunch up the first one and wrap another one around it, like winding a ball of wool, then wrap another rubber band around that one to hold it all in place. Keep adding one at a time until you have a ball shape. You can make the ball as big or as small as you like, and it will bounce really well.