Janod - Fox Skipping Rope - Adjustable Wooden Handles

The Janod Fox Skipping Rope takes a playground staple and makes it worth keeping. The handles are cherry wood shaped into fox heads, finished with felt ears and hand-painted faces, and the two-metre rope adjusts at the handle so it can be set to the right length for the child holding it.

Sized to the child, not the average child

Most skipping ropes come in one length and work properly for about one year of a child's life. The adjustable wooden handle here means you set it short while they are learning and let it out as they grow - so the rope that taught a five-year-old is still the right rope at eight.

Getting the length right also removes the main reason children give up. A rope that catches on every second turn feels like failure; one that clears cleanly feels like flying.

Product details

• 2m rope, adjustable via the wooden handle
• Handles turned from cherry wood
• Felt fox ears with hand-painted faces
• Matching bunny design available in the same range
• Suitable for children from around 4 years

Serious exercise disguised as play

Skipping develops cardiovascular fitness, rhythm, timing and left-right coordination, and it does so in short bursts that suit how children actually move. It needs no team, no court and no supervision - just a bit of flat ground - which makes it one of the most practical ways to get a child moving after school.

Built above the supermarket standard

Cherry wood, felt and hand-painted detail mean this is a rope that gets hung on a hook and noticed rather than lost in the bottom of a toy box. It withstands daily concrete use and looks good doing it, which is a fair definition of value at this price.

Buy alongside the Janod Bunny Skipping Rope so siblings each have their own, or as a small, active gift that does not add to the plastic pile.