KID'S CORNER
**Are the kids bored and driving you crazy?**
Create a backyard (or indoor) obstacle course to keep them busy for days! It’s great exercise, builds motor skills, and it’s just plain FUN! Use objects around the house and get creative to personalize the course for your child’s/children’s ages and abilities.
1. **Classic Tire Run**—Use old bike tires, hula hoops, or even rope or twine circles for kids to run through one foot at a time 2. **Balancing Beam**—an old log, lumber, or create “stepping stones” of different heights from what’s at hand 3. **Crawl Under**—create tunnels out of pvc pipe, pool noodles, branches for them to crawl under 4. **Jump Over**—anything that will serve as a small hurdle 5. **Pole dash**—place stakes in the ground at various distances for the kids to weave through 6. **Hot Lava**–classic game where the ground/floor is lava and kids have to find ways to get across it 7. **Laundry Basket Throw**—create a bean bag toss where they have to land the bag 3x’s to pass 8. **Color or Shape Matching**—for younger children. Set up stations using colored paper and cutouts for kids to match 9. **Animal Movement Stations**—have different stations where they have to imitate the movements of specific animals to pass 10. **Tunneling**—cardboard boxes with holes cut through can be taped together into tunnels 11. **Laser beam course**– Use yarn or twine to create a laser-style course to climb through