Bubble Wrap Jumping
Skills:
Physical: balance, upper and lower limb coordination
Cognitive: visual processing
Number of participants:
1 or more
Equipment:
bubble wrap
Description:
- child pops the bubble wrap by jumping on it
Wheelchair friendly?
This activity might not be suitable for people who use wheelchairs. “Wheelchair Friendly Activities” has a list of activities that are easy to adapt for wheelchair users. This list isn’t exhaustive, so we invite you to come up with your own creative ideas to make any activity work for you. If you have an idea on how to make this or any other activity more accessible for wheelchair users, We’d love to hear your ideas on how to make this or any other activity accessible for wheelchair users. Thank you for helping make play more inclusive!
Modifications to make the activity easier:
Change the environment: child pops the bubble wrap by jumping on it.
Modifications to make the activity harder:
Change the environment: play music in the background and challenge child to hop to the beat of the music while hopping on the bubble wrap to increase cognitive demand
Goal examples:
- in one minute, the child will be able to jump and pop all the bubbles in a 1m piece of bubble wrap
- I can jump on the bubble wrap
