Roll Your Booty Giveaway
My sister, a phys ed teacher, often gives the gifts that keep my kids moving and so when two blue wheeled handle thingies showed up on our front porch as gifts my first thought was great, “Something someone can break a leg on.” Honestly, that’s what I thought. Happy to say my kids haven’t gotten hurt on these (we do have rule they can’t stand on them, but the second they realized how unstable they are with standing, they opted to sit!). But make up your own safety rules and games!
This is our Roll Your Booty Giveaway to kick off our Get Your Kid Active Week. Don’t we all need ideas? I do. I know I’m halfway through summer and looking for new ideas for play (that double as therapy). Stick around this week…and see what other ideas we have for our Get Your Kid Active Week!
The Therapy Shoppe is wonderful…as you know. And this week is no exception! They are providing us the Safety Grip Scooter Board, X 2! I couldn’t see just giving away one because my kids have only always had TWO…here’s some of the fun stuff they do!
- Tie them together and one pulls or uses their feet to scoot each other around the house.
- Before my daughter could walk she used to push her stuffed animals around on it while she crawled (un) efficiently (bless her heart).
- The tie empty boxes from recycling on them to see how high they can build them, then test durability by pulling around on ropes (we also use large bungee rope from the hardware store).
- Parades with stuffed animals on them.
- Spinning around on them using their feet. We count how many spins before they fall off.
- I’ve delivered snacks to them on them during indoor picnics.
We’ve had them for years and still use them. Tell us if you really want them for your kid/s! We’re going to be choosing a registered member to give them to, but it wouldn’t hurt if you tell us you want them in the comments section!
Be sure to visit the Therapy Shoppe. Browse their completely organized gross motor section for other ideas for items for our Get Your Kid Active Week!
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Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts is founder of Support for Special Needs and has been a regular contributor since its inception in May 2010. A mom to two kids with special needs, she didn't want other parents to feel what is the often isolating world of raising a child (or two!) with disabilities. Her kids had kidney transplants at the age of eight and will need liver transplants in the future as a result of ARPKD/CHF. They both have vision disorders and learning disabilities.
I remember these in PE Class growing up…these were the second most popular thing that the teacher would bring out (The 1st being the giant parachute that we all circled around and played with!) I am not sure how Corrigan would do with these but I know that he loves to roll and go fast. He cannot peddle at all and he seems baffled by just pushing a button on his motorized Power Wheels toy too…but I do know that they are a lot of fun!!
Oh the parachute! LOVED the parachute!!
I would love to win these for Liam and the timing is great! We just got his OT service report in the mail today and these boards would be awesome for a lot of the activities that are being suggested for him
As always, great site folks! Keep up the good work.
Our kiddo uses these at her OT appointments and she loves it! Would love to have them at home too.
I had one for my daughter when she was three. We really were able to focus on her upper body strength and core strength by using this tool in the kitchen. We would use food as a way to get her to “scoot on her belly” towards us! Unfortunately, ours found its way to the garbage…she threw it and it cracked in half! And who said she had poor upper body strength?! Ha!
They had these at my son’s first preschool and he loved them!
Count me in! My son uses these at OT and loves them.
Our daughter (15 months) is not yet mobile. Her PT is always looking for new ideas – will have to mention these boards to her! Thanks for the idea.