How to Play Trampoline for Sensory Training

Trampoline is a teaching aid that we often use in sensory training and family games. It can bring children many aspects of exercise, especially the improvement of vestibular and proprioception.

Jumping on the trampoline can promote sensory integration, cultivate a sense of balance, improve gravity anxiety and insufficient exercise planning.

It can also improve children's hand-eye coordination ability, and help improve the operation of large and small muscles and visual-motor integration ability of children.

However, there are certain safety hazards in trampoline games, so parents must play trampoline games with their children under professional guidance.

What are the benefits of trampoline?

Improve children's muscle strength

Trampoline can strengthen children's muscle strength, improve body flexibility, increase bone density and joint strength, and can also develop core and lower limb strength well, and promote bone growth.

Exercise children's balance ability

Trampoline can help children maintain the balance of the center of gravity. Through the children's practice of fighting against elastic force, it can also promote children's balance ability in other activities.

In addition, the series of actions of children on the trampoline can also stimulate the development of touch to a certain extent, and help children reduce emotional problems caused by tactile sensitivity.

Promote the development of children's sensory integration ability

When letting children complete some difficult movements on the trampoline, children need to constantly adjust their body posture and muscle strength to complete the movements.

Children constantly discover new skills in the process of adjustment, and this process is a process of sensory integration.

How can you play on A Trampoline?

There are many ways to play on a trampoline. The low-intensity way is to make some simple changes to the basic jumping movements. For example, "back kick jump, step jump, left and right jump", etc.

For younger children, you can let them sit on the trampoline, and then the parents can jump gently on the trampoline to let the children gradually become familiar with the trampoline.

For children around 2 years old, parents can hold their children's hands with both hands and then make simple jumps.

Older or more capable children can do some fancy jumps, such as "opening and closing jumps, circle jumps, high leg jumps", etc. Of course, there are some other ways to play.

Trampoline turtle

Let the child lie prone on the trampoline, and the parents stand on the trampoline and jump, bounce the child up, and let the child experience the ups and downs of the trampoline.

After the child is familiar with it, let the child lie prone on the trampoline, lift the head and neck with force, and raise the chest as high as possible, which can strengthen the vestibular system and promote the formation of body muscle proprioception.

Trampoline ball throwing and catching

Let the child jump freely on the trampoline, or jump on the trampoline with both hands, and then do the "throw-catch" action with the parents. It can improve the child's reaction ability and visual-motor integration ability.

Trampoline shooting

Parents protect the child around, and then let the child jump on the trampoline while throwing the ball in the hand into the designated basket. You can also hang a balloon above the trampoline and let the child hit the target every time he jumps.

This game can exercise the child's vestibular and proprioception by letting the child adjust his posture in mid-air, and can also improve the child's hand-eye coordination and visual-motor integration ability.

Trampoline Friends

Let two children stand on the trampoline face to face, hand in hand and jump together, or let two children jump together by pulling a small hula hoop, so as to improve the ability of children to cooperate with each other, and enhance the stability of vision by looking at each other's eyes during jumping.

Trampoline skipping

You can also let your child skip rope on the trampoline, let the child skip rope slowly and little by little, and then add more tricks after the child is familiar with it.

What should I pay attention to when playing on the trampoline?

As a common sports equipment, the trampoline is both functional and interesting, but there are certain safety hazards, so parents must pay attention to protecting the surroundings.

Parents should protect their children within an arm's length. Parents are not allowed to use trampolines for children. Prevent slipping and try to let children play barefoot. Don't let children eat before and during playing on the trampoline. According to the child's ability, parents can hold their children's hands.

In fact, "jumping" is an exercise that cannot be ignored in the early growth of children. We must have seen that when children are 6 or 7 months old, they like to let their mothers help them jump.

At this time, every time the child steps with his feet, the force will enter the vestibular system in the brain through the touch of the toes and soles, and be analyzed and integrated, thereby stimulating his brain development and cultivating his sense of balance.

It can be seen that all kinds of behaviors of children in life are necessary for his growth and development.

We must not "restrict" children's various behaviors in the name of "love", but let them explore freely under the premise of safety to promote the development of sensory integration.

Sensory integration ability is the basis for learning all other abilities. Only by helping children train their sensory integration ability from an early age can children show a better state of life, living ability and learning ability.