Jump-N-Count Interactive Mini Bouncer Trampoline

Product Description

Cognitive 4

Skills

• Early counting skills of numbers 1 through 10 are worked on as children auditorily track their bounces along with the module on the trampoline.
• The Jump-N-Count trampoline incorporates early addition into play as children sum up their increments of 10 to total the number of jumps during each session.
• The verbal feedback from the module counting along with the feedback to reward kids to continue jumping promotes cause and effect relationships during play. 

Play Ideas

• Have kids verbally count with the trampoline module aloud. This will help cognitively reinforce the number of jumps with the physical feedback of the bounce.
• Kids can count aloud in different languages as they bounce.
• Kids can jump in patterns. For example, caregiver can ask a child to stop jumping when the module says the number 3. The caregiver can make it more challenging by asking the child to stop on the number 3 after jumping through one increment of 10. 

Physical 4

Skills

• Repeated jumping on the Jump-N-Count bouncer can help build lower body strength as children bend and extend their legs with each jump and landing.
• Arm strength is developed as children stabilize themselves using the padded bar as they bounce.
• The Jump-N-Count bouncer engages the core muscles promoting trunk strength. 

Play Ideas

• Kids can create an obstacle course and include the trampoline as part of the course.
• Caregiver can encourage a child to alter, and thus control, the strength used to jump – jump softly, jump hard, jump high, jump fast, jump slow.
• Balance and balance reactions can be practiced and further developed when a caregiver disturbs the balance by pressing on the surface of the trampoline, encouraging and stimulating a reaction from the child.

Sensory 4

Skills

• Children gain proprioceptive input from jumping. With every bounce, they are able to feel the pressure of their joints and muscles expanding and contracting as they relate to each other.
• Jumping on the trampoline allows kids to practice whole body movement and helps hone coordination skills as they land.
• Jumping can help affect vestibular input (the sense of one’s body in space). 

Play Ideas

• Instead of having the trampoline count along with the jumps, turn that feature off and have the child sing along with the rhythm of the bouncing.
• Use the trampoline as a reward to incentivize children to complete a task.

Adaptation Ideas

• Use painters tape to highlight the bounce area that prompts the module to verbally count the number of jumps.