10 activities to do on a scooter board

Using a scooter board is great for strengthening both the arms and the trunk / core.  Sometimes just being on the scooter board is fun all by itself, but other times you need to provide kids with a purpose and motivation to move the scooter board from one place to another.

Here is a short list of some fun activities to do while on the scooter board.

• Body Bowling.  Set up bowling pins at one end of the room, and have the child ride the scooter board down to knock them over.
• Fishing.  Scatter magnetic fish around the floor and have the child go find them all.
• Superman catch.
• Pull the child around with a rope or a hula hoop.
• Do a puzzle.  Have the puzzle pieces at one end of the room, and the puzzle board at the other end.
• Sorting.  Have bean bags or other objects at one end of the room that can be sorted into containers at the other end of the room.
• Shopping.  Place play food around the room, and you tell them what they need to find and get.
• Obstacle course of things you need to scoot around.
• Place cones around the room, and give the child ping pong balls that they have to place on top of the cones.
• Follow a path of tape placed on the floor.

Materials:

• Scooterboard

Skills:

• Upper extremity strengthening
• core strengthening
• sensory-motor — proprioception and vestibular
• motor planning
• bimanual
• visual perceptual – visual scanning