Giraffe Reach

Try the Giraffe Reach:

• With your eyes closed to challenge your balance
• On a wobbly surface (standing on a cushion, pillow or mattress on the floor)
• With one foot lifted up off the floor

• While doing the Giraffe Reach, reach one arm up in the air to be your neck and the other arm down behind you as your tail.
• Try the Giraffe Reach around your backyard, school or park. Which leaves can you reach up to in the trees on your tippy toes?
• Hang streamers, a balloon or tree leaves slighter higher than you can reach when standing with feet flat on the floor. Can you reach up to touch these on your tippy toes?
• Explore what else can you see or reach when you’re up on your tippy toes…

While doing the Giraffe Reach:

• Throw a ball up slightly and catch it
• Bounce a ball and catch it

While doing the Giraffe Reach, try:

• Making each of the letters (A to Z) or numbers (1 to 10) with your fingers
• Plaiting three pieces of wool together
• Threading beads onto a necklace or pipe cleaner
• Doing up and undoing buttons