Trampolines

How does the brain develop when children bounce?

A couple of bounces can be enough to put a smile on the faces of young children, while older children can push their boundaries doing twists and turns and acrobatic feats on a trampoline. The games played on trampolines can be anything from “Who can bounce the highest?” to imaginative play where children bounce all the way up into the clouds or to the moon.

All this movement and being able to play freely help to strengthen children’s physical and mental development. Physically, the children are exercised by the flexible surface and the constant shifts in their centre of gravity, which together improves their gross motor skills, balance and their leg and back muscles. Mentally, bouncing on the trampoline can improve children’s ability to concentrate, their endurance and imagination as well as their social skills when bouncing with other children.