Grossmotor skills are essential for moving around and playing. To encourage our students to engage their core and use both feet to jump, we attached balloons on a long piece of string so they have to jump in order to tap the balloon. An easy activity to set up at home!
An extension activity would be letting the children run around with the string attached to the balloon while keeping the balloon off the ground. This game can be made easier or harder by adjusting the length of string.
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