Team sport
Individual sport
Improves patience
Improves communication skills
Boules is particularly useful for youngsters as it teaches them the benefits of patience, also during activities children have to communicate with each other.
Short description
Boules is a collective name for a wide range of games similar to bowls and bocce in which the objective is to throw or roll heavy balls as close as possible to a small target ball, called the jack in English.
Pétanque is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports, along with raffa, bocce, boule lyonnaise, lawn bowls and crown green bowling. All of these sports share something in common, in that players or teams play their boules/balls towards a target ball.
