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Do your kids have an zillions of glut energy to get rid of? Try some of these superstitious hopping and jumping activities today!
Give these Energetic Activities a try! You’ll love them!
Do your kids love to jump and hop everywhere?
If you answered ‘YES’, to either of these questions, then this post is for you.
My oldest daughter has unchangingly been a ‘jumping jack rabbit’. At one years of age she was jumping everywhere.
In fact, we knew she was awake in the am or without a nap considering we could hear her hopping virtually in her crib.
She was only 15 months old when we bought her first trampoline.
Above any other toy, this was her favorite!
And still till this day, she’s in love with jumping. Every endangerment she gets she’s out on our big trampoline.
Benefits of Hopping and Jumping
Jumping is a developmental milestone that children will learn virtually age 2.
It is a whole soul exercise that improves balance, coordination and muscle strength.
The most wondrous thing well-nigh hopping is that there is scrutinizingly unchangingly emotion expressed with it.
Do you remember that feeling you got when you jumped on a bed?
What well-nigh when you or someone else scored a goal? Did you jump up and lanugo in excitement?
So let’s dig when into your inner child and create some increasingly opportunities for your children to jump.
Indoor Hopping Activities
- Take the cushions and pillows off the couches and I bet you’ll hear giggles in no time.
- Who would of known that painters tape could be so much fun? Get rid of the wiggles in this tape jumping activity.
- Hopping virtually matching wittiness colors in this worriedness is sure to alimony your kids entertained for awhile!
- Have some hopping fun with a pillowcase! So simple!
- Skip, hop, run and pop that bubble wrap in this unconfined gross motor activity. What a unconfined sensory worriedness to expend energy!
- All kids love to requite upper fives! Trace your child’s hand and they will love jumping up to requite themselves a upper five!
- Would you like to pick apples while hopping? I’m sure your kids would. Requite this hopping Apple Activity a go!
Learning Activities with Hopping
- Preschoolers will love learning how to spell their name in this Name Hop Activity.
- Grab some chalk, write some reports and you’re set to have fun jumping virtually learning letter sounds.
- Do your kids love flowers? If so, they’ll have a wham counting and hopping in this super cute Flower Activity.
- Jumping to find the matching shapes is sure to shrivel off some of your kids glut energy in this activity.
- Hop, Skip and Jump your way to learning shapes!
- Jump or hop from number to number! Learning numbers is so much fun!
Outdoor Hopping and Jumping Worriedness Ideas
- This is the cutest Hopscotch I have overly seen. Inspired Treehouse’s Show Me Some Love worriedness is definitely going to pull on your heart strings.
- All that’s needed for this hopping worriedness is paper plates. Super simple, no-prep activity!
- Learning letters is so much fun when you’re jumping on a trampoline!
- Hula Hoops are the perfect piece of equipment to practice jumping! Check out these tomfool hula hoop activities!
- Sideways, forwards and backwards! Practice hopping on these super tomfool Monster Footprints for a monster of an activity!
So what are you waiting for?
Let’s get your kids jumping and hopping around!
Increase muscle strength, cardio vascular endurance and get all that excess energy out!
Jump, jump, jump away!