Nursery World - Keeping children healthy indoors, part 3: on the floor

The floor is a fantastic piece of apparatus, and often overlooked when we are thinking of ways to support children’s physical activity, so try these ideas in part 3 of our parent's guides to keeping children physically active indoors during the coronavirus lockdown.

The floor is sometimes called ‘the child’s first playground’ because it offers so many possibilities for babies to practise some of their very first movement skills like rolling and crawling. Just because most children grow and develop into confident and competent movers who can walk, run and jump and hop with ease, don’t forget that they also need to revisit these ‘foundation’ skills as they effectively support the strength, agility, balance and co-ordination required for a range of physical disciplines.
What you need

What you need A clear space – not too big but big enough for children to move freely – and stickers or masking tape.

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