These awesome balance activities for kids are so important for supporting healthy child development.
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What is Balance?
Balance is the ability to hold your body upright and steady without falling down! This could be in sitting or standing, moving or standing still, with eyes open or closed.
Balance plays a huge role in helping children achieve developmental milestones and relies heavily on the vestibular system. Children must learn to balance before they can progress to higher level gross motor skills like stair negotiation, hopping, galloping or skipping.
Looking for balance activities and fun balance games for kids? Here are some of our favorites!
The Best Balance Activities for Kids
1 || So You Want to Be in the Circus!
These fun gross motor circus activities (including balance challenges) for kids that will be sure to wake up those gross motor skills. Come along for some awe inspiring fun!
2 || Tightrope Walking
This fun balance activity features some of the bravest circus performers: tightrope walkers! Find your tightrope, get up your courage, and get moving with one of the most fun gross motor activities around!
3 || Snowga: Wintertime Yoga Adventure for Kids
Connect and warm up with your child with this sequence of winter yoga poses and calming meditation exercises designed to go along with Caralyn Buehner’s book, Snowmen at Night.
4 || Cranberry Crazy
Add this fun movement game to your list of fun Thanksgiving therapy activities! Perfect for challenging balance and coordination!
5 || A Walk on the Wild Side
These awesome Halloween movement activities will give kids a chance to be monsters while testing out what it’s like to change their base of support with this fun activity.
6 || Boot Scoot n Shuffle
You’ll love these fall themed gross motor activities with leaves! Little feet + big boots + fallen leaves = SO MUCH FUN! (not to mention the benefits of strengthening, heavy work, proprioception, motor planning and balance! :)
7 || 20 Creative Ways to Practice Single Leg Stance
Check out our favorite fun and creative ways to practice single leg stance with kids!
8 || The Best Balance Bike
What if we told you that one of the best balance bikes you can get is one you already have in your garage?
9 || Christmas Tree Balance Activity
This is one of our all-time favorite Christmas gross motor activities! If you’re looking for creative Christmas activities that are simple to set up and keep kids engaged and challenged, this one is for you!
10 || Balance Practice for Kids
Want more information about balance practice for kids? Learn more about balance and get some great ideas for balance practice for kids!
11 || Fun Balance Exercises Using a Foam Balance Pad
These balance pad exercises are awesome challenges for kids that will keep things interesting during your therapy sessions or when practicing balance at home!
12 || How the Visual System Affects Balance
Many studies have established the link between vision and balance. Learn more and find out how you can support these skills in kids.
13 || Improving Balance: Balance and Learning Activity
Balance beam activities for kids can be fun and challenging, and it’s easy to make a balance beam out of found objects (a spare piece of wood, a line of tape, a few blocks).
14 || The Best Toys for Balance
Here are some of the best balance toys for kids that we use in therapy almost every day!
15 || Developmental Skills: B is for Balance
Learn about balance and why this skill is so important for healthy child development.
