Jump ‘n Slide Bouncer

Product Description

Sensory 4

Skills

• This toy offers a multisensory experience, (i.e. vestibular/proprioceptive input during movement, visual and tactile) which supports sensory processing and integration.
• Improved sensory processing can help a child stay better regulated. The child is less anxious, more open to reciprocal social interactions, and more able to respond to verbal and gestural cues.
• Jumping can help increase sensory awareness.

Play Ideas

• Many children enjoy jumping.  This Jump ‘n Slide Bouncer can be used as a motivation or reward for completing a cognitive task.
• Sing a song to your jumping beat.
• If bouncing helps calm a child, then allow him to use the Jump ‘n Slide Bouncer when he needs to self regulate.

Physical 3

Skills

• Performing gross motor activities on this Jump ‘n Slide Bouncer can help a child increase muscle tone, strength, endurance, postural control/core stability, bilateral coordination, timing, sequencing, rhythmicity and grading of movement while engaged in a playful activity.
• Jumping on the Jump ‘n Slide Bouncer can help improve coordination and balance.
• Bouncing can help improve circulation in the body.

Play Ideas

• Encourage a child to alter, and thus control, the strength used to jump – jump softly, jump hard, jump high, jump fast, jump slow.
• Bounce to the beat of a song (assisted or non-assisted).
• Sing the song, “Five Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed”.  After each monkey “falls off and bumps his head” have the child slide down the slide to “get off the bed”.

Adaptation Ideas

• Have the child sit or lie in the Jump ‘n Slide Bouncer and gently bounce the bed of the Jump ‘n Slide Bouncer for him.

Social/Emotional 4

Skills

• Body awareness can be felt and understood when bouncing. 
• Confidence in movement can be increased as most children are able to bounce at some level. 
• Turn taking can be promoted as kids share the bouncer with others. 
• Kids can bounce independently or with other kids to promote peer interaction. 

Play Ideas

• Jump different ways--high, slow, fast. 
• Kids can be "Simon" in a game of "Simon Says" to role model and provide directions for the other kids interacting in the bouncer.