Hi Marc

Six year olds need to have a lot of fun. So shots or mini games with rewards are always useful. However, they can still learn through play. Here's a few ideas.

1) High serve for singles – teach it and then stand near the rear court and ask your daughter to hit 10 shuttles into your hands without you moving. You may need to introduce a simpler step first and work up to this.

2) You do the exercise too but instead of your daughter standing at the rear court, teach her a movement pattern from mid court to rear court. When you hit the serve, she has to move using the pattern and catch the shuttle. As she progresses, you can hit thr shuttle lower to reduce the time she has to move and catch.

3) Teach her the “sneaky” shot. This is basically a straight net shot on either forehand or backhand side. Calling it something else makes kids curious and they do like the thought of knowing something that's sneaky.

4) Teach backhand grip so you can do the sneaky shot on backhand too.

5) You can do one hand catching games whereby you throw the shuttle over the net as if you have hit a drop shot. Start your daughter in mid court and teach split jump and pattern. Then see if she can catch in her racquet hand. Teach lunge and see if she can catch any better. This can forehand or backhand side.

This should keep you going for a while.

Paul