ACTIVITIES TO INCREASE GROSS MOTOR SKILLS

Please take into consideration your child's current skills, abilities and age when utilizing these ideas. Please supervise your child.

ACTIVITIES

• Climbing stairs
• Playing ball, catching, throwing, bouncing and kicking
• Leap Frog
• Walking a Beam or a line of tape
• Using homemade stilts, (strings tied to cans and walking on the cans using the strings to lift with)
• Going to the playground
• Using the Monkey bars
• Riding a child vehicle with pedals, tricycle, bicycle etc.
• Bouncing on Big Therapy Balls, (with adult support and supervision only)
• Play the Hokey Pokey
• Simon Says
• Jumping, hopping and skipping
• Jumping over a book
• Playing wheelbarrow