1. ROCK JUMPING. Place the rocks in curved line on the ground (preferably grass). Space them out at the size of average child’s step. The activity is to jump from rock to rock (on one feet or both feet) without falling off the rock.
It’s a great physical activity that will encourage jumping and improve self coordination.
To make it educational you can suggest your children to write lettes or numbers on the rocks and yell them out when one steps on the rock.
2. ROCK MAZE. Kids made the maze from rocks. They made a circle shape, but it could be any shape. The bigger the maze the more fun is to play with. My kids tried to jump on feet and get out of the maze, they also tried to go through it with closed eyes.
My toddler had the most fun with it. He was going rounds and rounds and couldn’t get out of maze. There were a lot of laughs.
3. ROCK HUNTING. Mark or color the rock, hide it and let the other kids find it. Kids tried to play this game with clues.
4. ROCK ROLLING. Neighbor boy came to visit us today and he showed his favorite rock game. Both kids divided rocks into 2 equal parts. Then put 1 rock in the middle of the table and tried to hit it and move it by rolling other rocks (from their piles) into it. There were more rules of this game but I didn’t get all of them yet.
5. STORYTELLING WITH ROCKS. For a more quiet time kids can color the rocks and have a Story Telling Activity.
Few tips
- don’t expect kids to play with rocks all day. They may play a game or two and move on to other activity. And that’s OK.
- if you see they are loosing interest of they have lack of ideas on what to play, try adding another item to help them with the ideas.
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