Crawling Obstacle Course

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For this week’s Try Something New Thursday, I made a crawling obstacle course for Buddy. The other day I saw him crawl up and over the seat of his ride on airplane, so I thought he’d be up for some crawling challenges.

I pushed back the coffee table in our living room to make some room, and then I made a pile of couch cushions and pillows. I wanted Buddy to have some motivation to crawl through the course, so I added a few balls and a stuffed toy. Balls are Buddy’s favorite toy, and I knew he’d be excited to see some new ones.

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Buddy wasn’t sure what to do at first, although he spotted the balls right away. (“Ba!”) He started with the pillows, but he wasn’t sure how to get over them.

crawling obstacle course 3Buddy struggled for quite a while. Eventually, I lifted him onto the couch cushions. Once he was there, he could get one of the balls. It didn’t take long for him to knock it out of his reach.

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The obstacle course was much more difficult than I thought for him. Buddy struggles with gross motor skills, and he’s not quite ready for climbing. He liked the idea of crawling on the pillows, but when he was completely surrounded by pillows, it was frustrating for him. I eventually put the couch cushions back, and cleared a spot in the middle of the floor for play surrounded by a perimeter of pillows. Once the pillows were on the outside of the area, Buddy was more interested in crawling on them. He went back and forth between playing with the balls and crawling on the pillows for a long time.

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Even though this activity didn’t go as expected, I’m really glad Buddy had a chance to work on his gross motor skills in a new setting. If you have any tips for working on motor skills, please share in the comments!

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