Learning intentions: The benefits of the game are to heighten confidence through success in movement, develop balancing skills, and develop spatial awareness and understanding of the body in space.
Don't be prescriptive about the youngest children starting and finishing, or starting at the beginning - this is an alien concept to them.
The equipment can be arranged to suit any age of child. The one-year-old can be held as they are swung across the 'high jump'. The 20-month-old can have both hands held as they balance on the rope laid on the ground. Two-year-olds will need lower equipment, with much hand-holding from adults. The material on the ground can simply be for the youngest to crawl across. Three-year-olds will need a watchful adult, who may need to be a hand-holder. Four-year-olds will be able to achieve much on their own, especially if they have had similar opportunities before. A child at this age can stand on milk crates, if they have been taught how to stand on them so they don't tip over.
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