30 Jul crocodile hop
Crocodile Hop
Crocodile Hop
Tonina Llull
This game is fun, active, and lively! It can be used to facilitate a variety of skills and is highly versatile for the clinical and educational setting. Although intended for younger children, we have found that older children (5-9) really enjoy playing it as well.
Meets Expectations
Durability
Versatility
Engagement
The Essentials
Engage learning with this versatile and active game. The kids need to traverse the visually engaging mat (100 inches long by 30 inches wide) using the different shapes, colors, and animals to jump on in order to move to the finish line at the top. What they jump on depends on what they roll on the dice. They can use one die or both dices to change how they play and strategize. The art on the mat is cute and captivating to look at for younger kids.
Children can play alone or with another player. Playing in a group of 3 or teams of 2 are great combinations for increasing the skills needed for collaboration, team play, sportsmanship, and simple strategic thinking.
This game can be used to facilitate early math skills, ability to complete tasks in a specific sequence, visual information processing, ocular motor skills, praxis (imitation, initiation, motor planning, sequencing, and follow through), balance, coordination, and gross motor skills. Crocodile Hop encourages active play with peers, younger sibling, and parents.
Fun Factor
This game is fun, active and lively! Younger kids enjoy playing with their friends and competing against their parents. Great addition for indoor and enclosed outdoor activities. Excellent addition for active rainy day fun indoors. It builds a variety of skills and is versatile while being highly engaging and motivating to kids. Though intended for younger children, I have found that older children really enjoy playing it with their younger siblings. They also like creating new ways to play the game and increase the challenge.
Easily graded and modified for a single player with PT, OT, SLP, and/or Educator to facilitate goals targeted in their plan of care or IEP.
Kid consultants, parents, and the Panel of Experts give this game 2 thumbs up! High marks for repeat play and healthy physical activity while building skills. The Panel of Experts highly recommend it for treatment sessions and home program activities.
Set-Up and Clean-Up
Set-up, clean-up, and storage of this game is easy for the floor mat — storing the inflated dice can be tricky without the space. Though each dice is inflatable, the game pieces are well made and durable.
The IF-THEN’S and the BUT’S
If and when the inflatable dice no longer hold air, it will be easy to recreate the items on large blank foam dice.
HOW TO AUGMENT THE USE OF THIS PRODUCT
Depending on the toy or game, as therapists and educators, it is typical that we vary the way we use the game and its components to facilitate underlying skills that may be required to play the game for children who are differently abled.
We can increase general learning and target specific learning areas, further enhance creativity and imagination, foster problem solving and memory, target additional physical (gross and fine motor) skills, social skills, communication; and foster sensory processing and modulation.
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