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

Cognitive: sustained attention, selective attention, visual processing, auditory processing

Social: awareness of personal space

1 or more

hula hoop

1. children are scattered throughout the activity area, standing in their hoops
2. announce a movement sequence using the words “in, out, over” and “around”
3. participants execute the movements as quickly or slowly as you would like using the hoop (i.e., around – child goes around 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 task: have the child copy someone doing the activity with their hoop to decrease cognitive 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 complete a movement for a longer period of time to increase physical demand

• the child will be able to demonstrate 3 different movements with their hoop
• I can do my best to follow the movements with my friends