Pick 4 gross motor skills you would like your child to work on (e.g.crawl under chairs, hop on mats, walk heel-to-toe on a line drawn in chalk or masking tape etc.) and have your child do the obstacle course each time they want to collect a burger to feed to the pig. Create a simple obstacle course using what you have at home (e.g.This is also great for developing your child’s working memory as they will need to remember the colour they rolled on the die while making their way across to the burgers. Encourage your child to think of new animal walks. bear, duck, crab, frog) to get the right coloured burger and feed it to the pig. Place the burgers a few metres away from the pig and use a scooterboard or various animal walks (e.g.Encourage your child to sit cross legged, kneel on their hands and knees or lie on their stomach while playing to increase their core strength.Pop the Pig may not seem like a very physically active game but it is easy enough to adapt to target some of those gross motor goals.
Learn how you can use Pop the Pig to help develop your child’s gross motor, fine motor, social, emotional and cognitive skills. Pop the Pig is a simple, fun game that is excellent for learning colours and numbers.
