10 Playing Suggestions: "How to Cross the Center Line"
Author: Tanja Damhof
Webshop owner and mother
In my previous blog I highlighted the "why" of crossing the midline. Now here is the "how" this can be practiced every day in a playful way. Tips and play suggestions have been collected in a Facebook call. Additions are always welcome to make the playful practice as varied and fun as possible.
Tips for playfully crossing the center line:
- Exercise therapist Marieke saw this air hockey game in the store and couldn't resist it. Super handy to stimulate lying on the stomach, improve eye-hand coordination and practice crossing the midline.
2. Therapist Miriam: Place puzzle pieces around the place where the puzzle is being made instead of to one side.
3. Remidal teacher Damayanti: I practice this more through brain gym exercises like lifting your right knee and tapping it with your left hand and then conversely tapping your left knee with your right hand etc. And of course by writing the lying eight on paper/in the air. And walking with crossed steps over a line and reciting the tables while doing so, for example.
4. Miss Katrijn: Putting pennies in a piggy bank. Two bowls, place on the right and left. Pennies from the right bowl go into the piggy bank on the left side and vice versa.
5. Ine: With juggling cloths: throwing and catching with crossed arms, for example... there are endless variations to think of
6. Educational assistant Hanneke:Sit in a circle and pass the ball . First clockwise, then counterclockwise, cross the midline above your head and behind your back with large balls in a circle
7. Toys42hands toy tip: magnetic marble track. Build the track so that there are starting possibilities for the marble on the right and left. Stand directly in front of the marble track and with your left hand let the marble start on the right and with your right hand let the marble start on the left.
8. Toys42hands toy tip: Draw the large playing board with string. Place it straight in front of the body and cross the hand over the entire board to reach all corners
9. Pinterest board: Crossing midline / Crossing midline / Überkreuzen Mittellinie
10. Clapping games from the past or modern versions of them. You can find quite a few of them on YouTube. Here is a starter:
