Gross Motor Number Recognition Activity
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We were given the full version of KneeBouncers Play with Purpose iPad app and got to explore the entire content. Both of my older boys, JZ (6) and J-Bug (4) thought it was fun. J-Bug is particularly drawn to airplanes right now, so his favorite game is Up in the Air, a game where you fly an airplane in the clouds and try to hit the clouds with a specific number in them. Since he loves that game so much I thought it would be fun to set up a gross motor game with numbered clouds. We had our own little flight school, to play with numbers.
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Directions: I used sidewalk chalk paint to draw clouds on our driveway. Sidewalk chalk would work well, of course, but the sidewalk chalk paint made the clouds nice and puffy. I used a squeezy bottle to get the texture of the clouds just right. Then I used sidewalk chalk to write the numbers. I wrote a handful of numbers several times. Then I called out a number to J-Bug and had him hold out his arms like an airplane and hop from number to number. First I told him to find all the number 5's, then the number 12's, and so on.
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He loved pretending to be an airplane! Hopping with arms outstretched requires a lot of balance and is great for developing gross motor skills. When we came back inside he asked to play KneeBoucners again, and he said that this time he was the airplane getting all the numbers.
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So fun! I love that you made a real life version of his favorite game! The KneeBouncers games look super fun - I haven't heard of them before. Off to check them out!
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thank you.
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Learning is so much easier when it's fun!
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Great giveaway!! Thanks for hosting!!
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neat idea!
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ReplyDeleteWe've been playing outside with sidewalk chalk all week and having so much fun. My grand twins will love this fun new idea. They are stuck on mud puddles right now, (I have to rescue them in my pretend helicopter) so I think I'll turn the clouds into mud puddles and tell them they are ducks jumping from puddle to puddle! Amazed at all your boards on pinterest. Glad I found you!!!
ReplyDeleteWe've been playing with sidewalk chalk all week and having a blast. My grandtwins will love this. They are into mud puddles right now (I have to rescue them in my pretend helicopter) so I think I'll make the clouds into mud puddles and tell them they are ducks that have to hop from puddle to puddle. So fun. You have amazing boards on Pinterest - so glad I found you!!!
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It looks as if he had a blast playing the game. We will be trying this at home as well. I think that my kids will love it.
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Thank you for the chance-my granddaughter will love this app Rosanne rosans4@comcast.net
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I'm always looking for new activites for my children and this seems like a fun one!
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This looks great. Who says play time can't be educational?
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What a cool idea! I had seen this around but just saw a comment on Mamas Like Me's FB page about it being based on an app! How did I miss that?! So fun!
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