I really enjoy and I learn more about gross motor activities for pre school. This was my first time to visit your site but not the last. Hi Jamie! Thank you for sharing your wonderful ideas. Glad to have found your site with lots of interesting activities I could use for my preschoolers.
Thank you for sharing ideas your wonderful ideas. Glad to have found your site with lots interesting activities I could use for my preschoolers. I look forward to working with my granddaughter…as you have some great ideas and I thank you. Love the fact that this site is embracing the fact that preschoolers love to move, rather than fighting against it. Great ideas!
Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful ideas! I teach a room full of very energetic preschoolers and I am always looking for great ideas to have them be active and get their wiggles out!
This will especially come in handy on rainy days and on days that are too cold to go outside. It can be hard to find things to do when you are stuck inside for so long. Thanks again for sharing your great ideas! Thank you for all of your suggestions! You obviously worked very hard to compile this list, and, as a stay at home mom of a two year old, I appreciate all the help I can get. Looks like great ideas you have listed for preschoolers and beginning kindergartners also.
Can they jump farther with a running start? See how many rungs they can stretch — or how far they can go on one foot. Check out this post at Hands on As We Grow.
Create a simple hopscotch board with numbers. Then have students toss a bean bag on a space and jump to get there. Another idea is to use cardboard squares that you can pull out at any time. Tip: Change the skill that learners review with hopscotch; instead of putting numbers on the squares, consider letters, shapes, or sight words. Have them put a balloon between their knees and walk like a penguin. Or they can toss the balloon and catch it so that it never hits the floor.
Can they balance the balloon on a part of their body like an outstretched arm and walk a few steps — or across the room? Print our free alphabet action cards — then get active while reviewing the alphabet one letter at a time. This is where you can get in your workout for the day. Simply do a series of exercises or silly actions, and have your students copy you.
Jump like a kangaroo. Scratch like a monkey. Run in a place. Whatever it takes to get that heart rate up! Print action cards and place them in jar. When your students need a movement break, pull a few cards for everyone to do. Here are some ideas for a preschool wiggle jar:. For wiggle jar ideas, visit Homeschool Share.
This is ultra simple, but surprisingly fun! Then challenge your learners to walk each colored line from beginning to end. If your learners like to dance, put on some music — but give them instructions to dance a particular way. They can dance slow, fast, in a circle, silly, etc. Grab a large soft die like this one , and write a list of simple exercises on cards.
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Outdoor Gross Motor Activities. Gross Motor Skills Games. Fine Motor Skills. Formal Classes for Preschoolers Dance and movement classes, like pre-ballet or tumbling, can be fun and provide motor-development skills, but they can be expensive.
The first person to reach mother wins. Have you ever noticed that some days your kids are full of all kinds of wiggles? Create a fun wiggle jar and place different fun activities inside. Try things like. All these are fun for them, get energy out, and make for a great indoor gross motor activity. Have you ever seen those mini indoor trampolines?
If you have the space pick one up for inside. These help with balance and coordination that will be a great benefit to your child. Climbing stairs helps your preschoolers in a variety of ways, but if you tell your child to climb the stairs most likely they will tell you that they are too tired.
So make it fun and play animal rescue. Place several stuffed animals at the top of the stairs and tell them they have to rescue them one at a time. Your child will then walk up and down the stairs several times all while rescuing the animals and strengthening their gross motor! Gather some friends and neighbors and create a musical parade.
Give everyone a fun instrument and have them march down the sidewalk in the parade. The kids will love playing music with one another! Grab some used 2-liter bottles 10 of them and create a fun outdoor bowling game. The kids can practice rolling the ball while trying to knock down all the pins at once.
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