A cushion mountain to cross

⏱️ 10 min📦 things you have🏠 indoor🤲 on the move👐 Sensory🤸 Motor

Climbing, crawling and hauling themselves over something soft feeds the sense that tells a toddler where their own body is — the one that develops through effort rather than through looking. All physical activity helps muscles, bones and brains develop, and this is the version that also feeds body awareness.

🧺 You need

  • every cushion, pillow and folded blanket in the room

🛡️ Keep the pile low and well away from hard edges, and never let it be built against furniture that could be climbed onto next. Stay within arm's reach; soft to land on is not the same as safe to fall from.

Source: NHSPlaytime activities and bonding with your toddler

🩺 Vuila shares play ideas, not medical advice — for questions about your child's development, talk to your pediatrician.

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A cushion mountain to cross

Pile it low and wide

Wide is better than tall. A long soft crossing gives far more of the effort than a high one.