Crouching

Description

Crouching helps to develop balance and can be encouraged through:

  • choosing objects from low level boxes
  • exploring natural objects outside
  • digging with a trowel
  • collecting and retrieving objects
  • sweeping

Related Skills

Bend knees to squat down to pick up a toy from the floor, using hands to get back up again.

Bends knees to squat down with complete steadiness and rise back up without using hands.

Squat with complete steadiness and rise without support.

Squat with complete steadiness and rise without support

Next Steps

Walk the plank

Early movers is a collaborative project between Loughborough University, the NCSEM and Loughborough campus nursery. Our work has been supported with Loughborough University Enterprise Funding through the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF).