Jumping activities help a child build confidence, improve co-ordination and strengthen large muscle skills.
It’s an opportunity to practise jumping and stepping and maybe even a little leaping.
The child can help design the path of steps. This lets them take the lead, promoting their problem-solving skills and self-expression.
Activities like this contribute to a child’s overall health and well-being.
How to do it
It’s best to play outside as stepping stones on indoor flooring can be too slippery.
A stepping stones path can easily be drawn on concrete using chalk.
Start by drawing oval shape steps which are big enough for two feet, which can be jumped in with one or two feet.
Your child can help decide where the path should go and when to have steps, leaps and jumps.
They can decorate the stepping stones with chalk.
Later you can extend the challenge by reducing the size of the stepping stones or increasing the distance between them so that a leap might be required.
Stones could be different shapes, for example a square, circle, triangle, heart and they can also vary in size.
Play this together, both trying the path. If possible, let the child be the leader. Only go first if you need to show them how to use it.
