Physical: lower limb coordination, one-foot balance

Cognitive: sustained attention, selective attention

Social: awareness of personal space if doing with other children

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target for the child to tap on the wall

1. child stands on one foot and then uses their other foot to tap a letter called out by the coach without losing their balance and without putting weight on the wall
2. have child repeat by touching other letters on the wall

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 stand closer to the wall to decrease physical demand
• allow the child to hold onto your hand or a chair when tapping a letter to decrease physical demand

Change the task:

• have the child hold their arms out to the side to decrease physical demand
• have the child choose which letter they want to tap rather than the adult dictate which letter to tap to decrease cognitive demand

Change the environment: have the child tap a letter or target that is further, higher, or lower to increase physical demand

Change the task: increase the time child needs to maintain balance on one leg to increase physical demand

• the child touches 5 different letters while balancing on one foot without wobbling for 10 seconds
• I can touch one foot to the correct picture (animal/ shapes) while balancing on the other foot