This is probably the best pattern for pre-schoolers.
Movement is one of the main keys to learning and there are a range of movements that are useful for the brain. Hopscotch has many movement opportunities. This activity shows how you can take something that is ‘school’ fun and adapt it to your pre-school grandchildren.
Make some squares (the hop-scotch pattern would be best) with chalk outside on the concrete, or masking tape inside on the carpet. Put a toy or interesting item in each square for non-mobile babies, for mobile babies put the items randomly. Hold the child and bounce them from one square to another in the right pattern. Give them time to investigate each item they find. Count as you bounce.
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Make some squares (the Hop-scotch pattern would be best) with chalk outside on the concrete, or masking tape inside on the carpet. Put numbers in the squares. Let them place/throw something like a little beanbag (so that it will not roll away) in one of the squares. Most of them will not be able to hop, so jump into each square (when the squares are side by side suggest they put a foot in each square) until they get to the square with the beanbag. Have them pick up the bean bag and jump back to the start.
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