Springfree™ Trampoline

Product Description

Sensory 4

Skills

• Jumping can help affect proprioception (the sense of one’s body in relation to itself, muscles and joints).
• Jumping can help affect vestibular action (the sense of one’s body in space).
• Incorporate body awareness and imitation skills by holding up a picture of how a child should jump – sit, stand, knees, etc. The pictures can help children who have hearing impairments access and enjoy the activity.

Play Ideas

• Use the trampoline as a reward or motivation for completing a task. Or have children bank up jump time by reading or doing chores.

Adaptation Ideas

• Walk a child around the outside of the trampoline and then again on the inside perimeter of the trampoline so she/he can get a feel for the size and parameters of their jumping space.
• Continuously use verbal communication and sounds to help a child with visual impairments know where others are in the trampoline.

Physical 3

Skills

• Muscle strength can be positively impacted when children jump on the trampoline.
• Jumping on the Trampoline can help improve coordination and balance.
• Balance and balance reactions can be practiced and further developed when an adult disturbs the balance by pressing on the surface of the trampoline, encouraging and stimulating a reaction from the child.

Play Ideas

• Use the trampoline as a reward or motivation for completing a task. Or have children bank up jump time by reading or doing chores.
• Encourage a child to alter, and thus control, the strength used to jump – jump softly, jump hard, jump high, jump fast, jump slow.

Social/Emotional 4

Skills

• Motor processing – being able to integrate movement and sensory input – can be encouraged through jumping in the trampoline.
• Proprioceptive input is enhanced as children feel the pressure on their joints when jumping on the trampoline. 
• Confidence in movement can be increased as children are able to bounce. 

Play Ideas

• Use the trampoline as a reward or motivation for completing a task. Or have children bank up jump time by reading or doing chores.
• Have children bounce on their bottom or knees to encourage further proprioceptive input. 
• Have children use a timer during play to show off their best jump "moves" like in gymnastics.