Introduction to climbing

Description

  • Tape up catalogues or phone directories and cover them with materials to make little steps to sit on or climb over
  • Let the children crawl: over you, over cushions, through tunnels, across a tarpaulin outside
  • Use soft play equipment
  • Place toys on a slightly higher level e.g. a chair, to encourage kneeling and pulling up to standing

Related Skills

Manoeuvre quite safely around a soft play environment, negotiating small steps and slopes and learning to go down backwards with body close to surface

Climb onto an adult chair, turn and sit down. Safely get back down again backwards

Crawling under, around and through objects and obstacles showing a growing appreciation of their own size in relation to the space of the environment.

Pushing up to stand at a surface

Growing body awareness and the growing understanding of how body parts relate to each other

Standing alone

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).