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Baby Ballet?

3 is pretty young to be doing sport. Most 3 year olds won't be doing organised sport at that age.......

I know its not a sport as such but my dd absolutely loves her trampoline. Best money we ever spent At least she is outside and getting lots of fresh air.

Also meant to add, my dd is exactly the same age and also has severe speech delay and possible ASD. I dont think she would really cope with a) understanding the rules of a 'sport' or b) the 'busy-ness' of a sports hall.

ds has been doing dance at nursery since about that age, he's only recently started to join in though. He also does lots of swimming & football at soft play play (rules don't seem to matter much!) - he's starting riding on Sunday, they start at 3 years old, maybe that would be an option?

dd1 did baby ballet from 4 I think - it isn't particularly energetic, an hour at soft play burns off far more energy ime

From pre-school age we used badminton rackets and shuttles hung from door frame (extra wide) indoors and trees/washing line outdoors. My ds really enjoyed that and now late teens still continues to play badminton. It also helped his coordination.
Trampoline also good, my ds used to go to the tramp club and gym club, there are waiting lists but time flies.

Our sports centre has a gym joeys which is fab my dd2 runs wild there! I think there's a chain of them they are a bit like tumble tots

Trampolines and soft play were our go-to's at that age. At school DS did something called 'Enjoy-A-Ball' which he/we loved - it was basically all sorts of activities to do with ball skills, so not getting into rules, football, etc. It was open to kids at the nursery too so would probably suit your DD?

thanks - will definately look into trampolines... don't I didn't come up with it myself (DD is trampolining quite a bit in our bed ). we have an appointment with her ENT doc next month. grommets where put in a while ago so chances are, they fell out. leaves only the challenge of getting a swim suit for my post baby body LOL

We've got a trampoline and soft play is always good.

We are just about to start a martial arts class (based on taekwondo) which has been recommended to me by a few people. The class we are doing takes children from age 2 - we haven't been able to do it until now as we were doing swimming on Saturdays (Ds1 is 4.5). I've also just been given a flyer by DS1's school for SN judo classes.

A less structured dance class might be good. DD (SLI) goes to a theatre dance group where all the teaching is very visual and children are able to 'interpret' the dance a little more - less emphasis on form . She loves it and it has been great for her confidence.

We tried gymnastics but the particular hall they used was too big and echoey and I think that made it harder for her to latch on to what was being said. I may look for an alternative class.