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

Cognitive: sustained attention, selective attention, visual processing

Social: understanding of personal space

1 or more

• small block
• scarf

• child steps on a block and then jumps up to grab a scarf

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: hold the child’s hand when stepping up and/or jumping to decrease physical demand

Change the task: keep the scarf at the child’s eye level to decrease physical demand

Change the environment: raise the scarf higher for the jump to increase physical demand

Change the equipment: increase the height of the block for the step up to increase physical demand

• the child is able to increase jump height from 30cm to 45cm in 2 weeks
• I can jump off of the block