By: Chelsea Mihm, DPT

Spider Web: Balance Activity

Using duct tape, painters tape, or chalk outside make a large spider web with connecting lines to resemble a spider web. You can use little play bugs to pretend they are “trapped” in the spider web and your child must save the bugs from the web by walking along the spider web lines similar to walking on a balance beam!

Ghost Balloons: Body Awareness/Coordination Activity

Drawing a ghost face on a white balloon and challenging your child to keep the balloon in the air. This practices navigating around their environment safely when your child is visually looking at other things (the balloon). This is important for example, when walking in the grocery store looking at the aisles, or at school in the busy hallways without losing our balance and falling. You can make this activity more or less challenging by playing in an open space or adding obstacles your child must avoid – still ensuring the environment is safe throughout the activity!!

Witches Broom: Endurance/Coordination/Body Awareness Activity

Pretend you are flying on a witches broom and practice skipping, galloping, or running! You can increase the challenge when running by saying “stop” and seeing how quickly your child can come to a stop while running! This can help work on body awareness and increase safety when your child is playing in their environment!

Monster Walks: Global Strengthening Activity

Practice walking as different “monsters” by doing crab walks, bear crawls, penguin walks (walking on heels), crawling, rolling, or any other creative ideas you and your child come up with! Can play fun Halloween music as well!