🔢 Chalk Hopscotch
Numbers on the ground you have to hop to reach.
🏃 Move·20 min·$3·Ages 3–5·👶 Medium·🧑 Light
⚠️ Safety first
Stay with them outside. Flat, dry ground away from traffic, and shoes on.
You know your child best — supervise the whole time and skip anything that isn't right for them. See our Terms.
Why this is good for your child
- ✓Counting
- ✓Balance
How to do it
- 1.Draw squares numbered one to eight.
- 2.Throw the stone, then hop over that square.
- 3.Count out loud every hop.
How it actually goes
- ⏱ 30-second set-up —
- Thirty seconds: put chalk, a small stone on the step or the grass, and sit down next to it before you call them over.
- 🧑 What you do —
- Show it once, slowly, without talking over yourself. Then hand it over and stop helping unless they ask.
- 👶 What they do —
- Climb, carry, balance and wobble — and try it again faster.
- ✅ What success looks like —
- At 3–4 they'll repeat it, narrate it, and want to change the rules. Let them change the rules.
- 🧺 How to put it away —
- Everything back into one basket or tray, carried back to its spot by them. Naming the spot out loud is what makes it stick.
- 📈 When they outgrow it —
- Older? Add a timer, or let them design the next round.