🏃 Move🏃 Active🎭 Pretend play
🏃 Living-Room Obstacle Course
Cushions, chairs, and tape become a course to run again and again.
Ages
2–5
Duration
20 min
Cost
Free
👶 Kid challenge
Easy
🧑 Parent energy
Hands on · 5 min prep
⚠️ Safety first
Stay in the room. Clear hard corners, no climbing on furniture, and keep the floor dry.
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
- ✓Balance
- ✓Gross motor
What you need
CushionsTapeChairs
How to do it
- 1Lay cushions as stepping stones.
- 2Add a tunnel under a chair and a tape line to balance on.
- 3Time each run and try to beat it.
How it actually goes
The honest version — including what "going well" looks like at this age.
- ⏱ 30-second set-up
- Thirty seconds: put cushions, tape, chairs on a tray or a clear bit of floor, 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 2–3 they'll do it their own way, not yours, and stop after five minutes. Both of those are fine.
- 🧺 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.