Outdoor climbing frames are very popular among children. Climbing frames have many benefits for children. However, many children who are new to climbing frames do not know how to use them. The following is a guide to the benefits of climbing frames and the correct way to play with them.
How to play climbing frame
Check the equipment and children's clothing
We must first check in advance whether the screws of the climbing frame are loose, whether the welding points are smooth, whether the floor mats are damaged, and avoid gravel and water areas. Secondly, let the children wear non-slip sports shoes, remove necklaces, bracelets and other accessories, and tie long hair into a ponytail to prevent hooking.Finally, we let children under 3 years old give priority to low kids climbing frames or mushroom piles, and those over 5 years old can try three-dimensional structures. Our parents need to supervise within 1.5 meters to ensure the safety of their children.
Guide children to play climbing frames in a fun way
For young children, we can use "role-playing" to stimulate interest, such as comparing the climbing frame to a "forest castle", letting children imitate little monkeys "climbing tree trunks", etc., tie scarves and plush toys on the horizontal bars of the climbing frame, and let children "collect treasures" while climbing to improve their concentration.For older children, we can set challenging tasks, use a timer to play a "climbing competition", or specify routes to exercise children's spatial planning ability. Multi-person play The climbing frame traffic lights, one person shouts instructions, and others quickly locate and enhance reaction.
Cultivate the foundation of children's climbing frame
We first let the children hold the horizontal bar with both hands, practice moving left and right alternately, and gradually increase the holding time to more than 30 seconds. Demonstrate the posture of fixing both hands + one foot, moving the other foot, avoiding hanging climbing and other exercises to strengthen body control.
Increase parent-child interaction skills
Parents use toys or gestures on the ground to guide children to find directions and improve children's spatial perception. We can also make up adventure stories while climbing, so that children can naturally overcome fear in the plot. If the child is afraid, do not force him to try. Our parents can first accompany him to sit at the bottom of the climbing frame and play the game of passing blocks, and then guide him to climb after gradually building a sense of security.
The benefits of climbing frames for children
Promote children's physical and mental development
When children climb, their limbs alternately support their bodies. They need to mobilize the latissimus dorsi, abdominal muscles, thigh muscles, etc. to improve upper limb strength and lower limb explosive power. Children aged 3-6 can increase their grip strength by 20%-30% by insisting on climbing. Adjusting body posture on irregular structures can strengthen vestibular sense, reduce children's problems such as falling and clumsy movements .
Promote children's physical cognition
Our children can more clearly perceive the spatial position of various parts of the body and improve the problem of insufficient proprioception by judging how far the hand should grasp the horizontal bar and how high the foot should step. Children can stimulate their tactile development by touching climbing surfaces of different materials. At the same time, observing route planning can improve children's visual spatial ability and lay the foundation for geometric cognition.
Promote children's brain development
When children climb, the left and right brains need to coordinate to control the opposite limbs, which can promote the development of children's corpus callosum. Children who often play climbing frames before the age of 6 have faster information transmission between the left and right brains, and more fluent language expression and logical thinking. Faced with the challenge of how to climb from a low place to a high place, children will spontaneously try different paths to improve their planning ability and resilience.
Promote children's social skills
When children climb to the highest point, their brains secrete endorphins to relieve anxiety; after successfully completing the challenge, children will identify themselves. After 4-7 years old children have played with climbing frames for 1 month, their social withdrawal behavior has decreased by about 40%. When climbing with multiple people, they need to learn to wait and remind their companions to pay attention to safety when it is their turn, which can promote children's communication and cooperation skills.
Promote children's sense of rules
Children will gradually perceive how high they will be afraid of and how to hold it steadily during climbing. Only one person can cross the single-plank bridge at a time. This kind of risk judgment formed by independent exploration is more effective than simple preaching, and can enable children to establish intuitive cognition of "danger-safety" and understand public order before the age of 6.
Promote children's imagination
The climbing frame itself has no fixed way of playing. Children can imagine it as a "pirate ship mast" or "jungle vines" to activate their imagination in role-playing. Observing the climbing frame from different angles can cultivate three-dimensional spatial thinking and plant the seeds of interest for future learning of geometry, architecture and other fields.
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