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Laundry Basket Shootout! This Activity will enhance fine motor skills, fitness levels and physical literacy.

You will need: 

  • A room in your house with about 4 feet of space
  • 5 pairs of rolled up socks
  • 2 Laundry baskets or hampers
  • A cutting board, or something for a flat surface
  • Rolls of tape
  • Puzzle

Directions:

Warm up your body for the Obstacle Course
Move from one side to the other and get creative with ANY movement you want.

The Course:

Station 1: Laundry Basket Shootout
Fill as many baskets as you can in 1 min.

Icons of socks turning into balls and image of a cutting board leaning against a laundry basket

How-to:

1) Place the tray diagonally off of the hamper to create a ramp

2) Send the socks into either the standing hamper for 2 points or roll up the tray for 1 point!

Icon of tape turning into a tape ladder for the course and into the puzzle piece version of the course

Station 2: Tape Ladder and/or balance beam (1 min)

1) Tape lines onto your floor to create a ladder.

2) Create wacky balance obstacles and use different designs to challenge!

3) If using a chair/walker, follow one line and balance your wheel on the line! 

Variations:

Increase difficulty:

  • Ladder: Try moving faster or making it longer!
  • -Laundry Basket shootout: increase distance, number of shots
  • -Puzzle: Make it bigger, more pieces!

Simplify it:

  • Decrease distance in ladder or shootout
  • Use larger or more rolled up socks (even toilet paper rolls work!)
  • Smaller puzzle (less pieces)
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