{"id":167,"date":"2020-04-21T13:26:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T17:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/?p=167"},"modified":"2020-04-21T13:26:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T17:26:19","slug":"sensory-sidewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/2020\/04\/21\/sensory-sidewalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensory Sidewalk!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3236\/2020\/04\/frog.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3236\/2020\/04\/frog.png 512w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3236\/2020\/04\/frog-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello Families! Hope everyone is staying well. The next activity I am going to discuss is creating sensory sidewalks. The only equipment you will need is some chalk and an area to designate for the pathway. A sensory sidewalk is a great way to encourage bilateral coordination and gross motor skills, plus, it is a lot of fun! Sensory sidewalks can be designed with as many steps as you would like, and as far as you would like the sidewalk to go! In my neighborhood, I was able to extend the sidewalk across three houses and was a fun sidewalk for the neighborhood kiddos could use throughout the week! The below are ideas to include in your sidewalks, feel free to use these, or make your own! \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Crab Walk: Draw hands and feet on the sidewalk, continue to draw these through the duration of this movement (5-10 feet) Have the child try to place hands and feet on the chalk hands and feet!<\/li><li>Bear Crawl: Draw hands and feet on the sidewalk, continue to draw these through the duration of this movement (5-10 feet)<\/li><li>Lazy 8: Start by drawing a line, add a large loop, followed by a line, add a large loop, etc. Have the child walk directly on the line-this is great for balance!<\/li><li>Balance Beam: Draw a straight line, or zig zag, have the child walk directly on the line without falling off&#8230;they can also walk on the line placing each foot directly in front of the other (heel to toe)<\/li><li>Frog Hops: Draw lily pads and have the child use both feet to jump to the next lily pad!<\/li><li>Run!: Draw two lines, have the child stay within the two lines and run as fast as possible!<\/li><li>Let the child pick one to create\/design! Have fun with the activity! \ud83d\ude42 <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Families! Hope everyone is staying well. The next activity I am going to discuss is creating sensory sidewalks. The only equipment you will need is some chalk and an area to designate for the pathway. A sensory sidewalk is a great way to encourage bilateral coordination and gross motor skills, plus, it is a lot of fun! Sensory sidewalks can be designed with as many steps as you would like, and as far as you would like the sidewalk to go! In my neighborhood, I was able to extend the sidewalk across three houses and was a fun sidewalk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/2020\/04\/21\/sensory-sidewalk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading Sensory Sidewalk!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}