Indoor Agility Course

Activity Overview

Agility courses help young children with their vestibular and proprioceptive sense systems. These important systems are in charge of helping our bodies understand our internal balance, how to move through space and where we are in space. Young children grow these sensitivities throughout their toddler and preschool years, and developing them has a direct correlation on a child’s future attention span, frustration tolerance, cognitive processing and even graphomotor skills.

What You Need

• Blue painter’s tape (if you do not want to use painter’s tape, you could use string, or strips of cut paper)

• Agility Course Layout (use this for inspiration)

• Furnishings that are movable (tables, chairs, pillows, blankets)

• Imagination and creativity

Steps

1. Create an opportunity for balancing.

2. Create an opportunity climbing under and over.

3. Create an opportunity for hopping and jumping on two legs or one leg, bear crawling, crab walking, rolling.

4. The world is your oyster and the best agility courses are co-created with children! This activity is open ended, and you should feel free to change it however you want!

Guiding Questions

• How can you move your body safely?

• How fast can you move? How slow?

• Can you go through the course moving backwards? Sideways? With your eyes closed?

• What other ideas do you have to add to our agility course?

Extensions

• For older and more experienced students, try the following challenges:

  • Set a timer - how fast can your student get through the course?

  • Have your student design the course and draw a blueprint.

  • Have your student draw and cut out shapes and add a shape challenge to the end. The adult names a shape and the student has to identify the shape and jump to the correct one.