Gross Motor: Alternating Feet on Stairs

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Cassie

What you need: Stairs, different colored socks and toys or items that match the color of the socks.

We used dinosaur and pink socks.

The stairs where made into a pattern of dinosaur item then pink item all the way up the stairs.

The girls go up and down the stairs matching their socks to the pattern on the stairs.

Then they switch socks on their feet.

Then up and down they go again.

This is a good way to make a gross motor task more fun. As an alternative, I have taped pompoms to the tops of their feet and then matched pompoms. They girls love to gather colored items to match their socks.

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com

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Cassie is a mom of three stomping, romping, and roaring girls. She blogs about fun art and craft activities and printables she make. She includes the odd review of products every now and then. She also blogs about the places that she has taken the girls called trip reviews. She has a few free printable pack for kids ages 2 to 8 and always adding more. She love to get comments and feedback and always looking for new things to try or do with her girls.

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5 Responses to Gross Motor: Alternating Feet on Stairs

Margaret@YTherapySource says:

May 24, 2012 at 11:21 am

WOW! As a pediatric physical therapist I love finding any new ideas to help children learn how to climb the stairs. This idea is AWESOME! Just pinned, tweeted and Facebook”ed” it all over the place. Thanks for your creativity.

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  May 24, 2012 at 11:29 am
  
  I’m glad that you like it!
  
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The Monko says:

May 25, 2012 at 3:38 pm

This is a great extension to the patterns with socks and yey my son could do this even without a sibling. Thanks for linking to Kids Co-op

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