Play at the gates

 ADULT  / CARER ?

PLAYWORKER CHALLENGE

Are you faster than a baby ?

(1)  Place about twenty balls in a stair gate  wait for the toddler/baby to come and play at pushing them out .

(2)  Stand the opposite side and after the child has pushed  five or six (number is upto to you - this is your adult handicap) through onto the floor start to pick them up and put them back in the rails

- meanwhile if the child is into playing he/she will continue to push balls through and often will try to push the ones you are putting back in quite quickly.

(3)  Okay thats the idea now try to pick up and put the balls back quick enough so that for 3-5 seconds there are no balls on the floor.

If you can do this then you are fast or the baby child has stopped. and it is one nil to you.

But for every time your child has more than 15 pushed through to the floor or in your hands then give them a point :).

If they push all twenty out you have lost and are well slow or unfit !

Okay babies dont need points etc but in your own head it's a good motivation to do a bit of agility testing and playing with your child.

For children over 3 or 4 then more serious  game playing with points and proper gaming can occur; some gates make good frames for connect 4 game play   

 Baby children find it fun to push them through and watch you try to put them back almost as though they are in competition with you.

This is a good game to test your own and your child's reactions and especially your fitness and agility.

can include rhyme games songs etc.