Physical: upper and lower limb coordination, reaction time, gross motor skill, balance

Cognitive: sustained attention, selective attention, visual processing

Social: awareness of personal space

one or more

hula hoop

1. children place their hoops on the ground and attempt different challenges, such as:
   • demonstrate movements with the feet inside and the hands outside the hoop
   • two body parts inside the hoop)

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!

Change the environment: have the child hold onto a parent or adult during the activity to decrease physical demand 

Change the environment: have child complete the activity close to another child to increase physical and social demand

Change the task: have the child hold each balance for a few seconds to increase physical demand

• child is able to demonstrate 3 different movements with the feet inside and hands outside the hoop
• I can be creative in trying new movements with the hoop on the ground