15 Gross Motor At-Home Activities with Painter’s Tape

Need some activities to do with your children at home? PTN’s Physical Therapist Laura Vargas came up with 15 activities to do at home with painter's tape to encourage balance, motor planning, and coordination! Gross motor skills are those that require whole-body movement and which involve the large (core stabilizing) muscles of the body to perform everyday functions such as walking, standing, running, and jumping. Motor planning is the ability to conceive, plan, and carry out a new skilled motor act in the correct sequence from beginning to end. Motor coordination is a group of muscles working together for a purposeful movement.