17/10/2025
UTILISING THE SCHOOL PLAYGROUND 🛝
How can we use the school playground to work on gross motor skills?
Let's show you!
1. Balance with heel-toe walking on a line
2. Muscle tone, strengthening the body and praxis (motor planning) by climbing / sliding on the jungle gyms.
3. Vestibular stimulation, proprioceptive input and tactile integration, by sliding, dping monkeybars and crawling through the sandpit.
4. Play 'the floor is lava' where they plan a route from point A - B without touching the floor, to work on planning
Additional benefits:
- nature based sensory integration
- cardiovascular endurance
- stimulating the lymphatic system
- boosting seratonin production (improved mood 😜)
