Jumpin Monkeys

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Product Feature

• Be the first player to catapult all of your monkeys into the tree and get a bunch of bananas
• Deluxe plastic tree
• 16 monkeys, 4 catapults, bananas, and labels
• 2 to 4 players
• Ages 5 and up

Product Description

Catapult all your monkeys into the tree first and win!

Jumpin Monkeys Review

My son always asks to play this toy when we go to his occupational therapist, so I bought one for playing at home.

This game is a hit with my 3.5 year old son and his friends who come over to play. His 6 and 10 year old cousins will even join in, and for a toddler game, it's relatively fun for the whole family. Currently, we play it without rules or a winner; each person just takes a turn to launch a monkey, and is given a banana card if their monkey lands in the tree.

The players need to line up the "launchers" with the tree, carefully balance the monkey on the launcher, hold the launcher down with one hand, and use the other hand to press and release the launcher.

Although the manufacturer says it's for kids age 5 and up, our occupational therapist first had my son play with it when he was 2.5.

To make the game easier for your child, you can figure out where your child tends to launch the monkeys and move the tree there. As your child's skills improve, you can teach him how differing amounts of pressure on the launcher cause the monkeys to land closer or farther away. You could ask older children (and parents!) to move farther away from the tree to make it more challenging for them.

This toy is very easy to assemble and disassemble to put back in the box.

This is a great game for kids with special needs (including cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, hypotonia, limb-kinetic apraxia, dyspraxia, and other muscle and movement disorders). The child needs to be very precise to balance the monkey on the launcher, and must use a "helper hand" to hold the launcher down, while pressing down gently on the launcher with a finger from his other hand.

Good for encouraging the use of a "helper hand" and for increasing finger strength in the working hand. This is particularly nice for kids with cerebral palsy or other disabilities that affect one arm/hand more than the other. Note that it does take some precision to get the monkey to stay on the launcher; this would be a very difficult (and perhaps frustrating) toy for a child who has dyskinetic or athetoid cerebral palsy or otherwise has a difficult time controlling his hand movements.

Therapeutic play suggestion:

Encourage your child to switch which hand is the helper hand (holding the launcher) and which hand pushes the launcher down with each turn.

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