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Physical Activity and Motor Skills Ideas from Pink Oatmeal

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Physical Activity and Motor Skills Ideas from Pink Oatmeal

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Activities for Hip Strength and Stability

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Activities for Hip Strength and Stability

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More Than A Gym, Pediatric Therapy and Sensory Gym

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Spell your name workout fitness activity printable for kids. Your kids will get a workout without realizing it when you make fitness into a fun game.

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This can be done in a classroom, homeschool environment, or just with one child at a time. I also recommend checking out the simon says workout for Kids.

Use a dry erase board and have them write out their full name before doing the activity.

You can also use this with spelling lists and other important words you want your kids to learn to spell. Educational and good for healthy bodies, this activity really is a win-win.

You can use a single large dry erase board or buy these small ones only $6 each. And the best thing is that the kids will think it's just fun, so you probably won't get a single argument from them.

You can use this with individual kids or even at parties or in a classroom environment. A school district is even using this printable in their physical education program! I'd love to hear how you use it.

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Spell Your Name Workout - What's Your Name? Fitness Activity Printable for Kids

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What's your name? Fitness activity printable for kids. Your kids will get a workout without realizing it when you make fitness into a fun game with this spell your name workout.

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Activities for 2-3 year olds

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Oh my goodness, toddlers and preschoolers have a lot of energy, and sometimes we just cannot get outside. Or, we've been outside already and they still have a lot of energy! Yep, this is why I have a list of go-to gross motor activities for indoors. And I am thankful for it!

We recently had a morning where the preschoolers arrived with enough energy to run a 5K race. Okay, maybe a half-marathon. Those are mornings we open the doors to go outside as quickly as possible. However, because we share that area with 2 other classes, we cannot stay out there all morning. (Believe me, on those high-energy days, I would gladly do it if we could.)

The first thing we do on these days is get moving with our collection of favorite active songs. If the wiggles are still there, it's time for some gross motor activities for indoors. Some can be done in our classroom, and others need a bit more space so we go to our indoor gym. And believe me, I am thankful for a variety of ways to burn that energy!
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Gross Motor Activities for Indoors

Follow the Line: Grab a roll of painter's tape, push your furniture out of the way, and invite your child to push heavy objects. (Little Bins for Little Hands)

Tic-Tac-Toss: You only need 2 items for this gross motor activity, and it can be done right in your living room. (Adventures in Wunderland)

Simple Straw Javelin Throw: Launch a drinking straw through the air and see how far it can go. (Toddler Approved)

Skee Ball: Empty those laundry baskets, because they will be needed for this fun indoor tossing activity! (Frugal Fun 4 Boys)

Bean Bag Stomp and Catch: Stomp on the board and watch the bean bag fly while you try to catch it! This is a fun DIY project and works hand-eye coordination. (I Can Teach My Child)

Wheelbarrow Walk Puzzle Fun: This is a great activity for working on coordination and arm strength. I love how it involves picking up puzzle pieces along the way! (Stir the Wonder)

Popcorn Game: One of our favorites that involves a parachute. (Teach Preschool)

Noodle Jumping: Here is a super easy activity that encourages motor planning skills, coordination and body awareness. (Pedia Staff)

Throwing Skills Game: Make your own rings and use the dining room chair! (Learning 4 Kids)

Color and Movement Game: Download the free color action cards and invite your child to recognize colors while moving! (Learn, Play, Imagine)

Animal Yoga: Choose a pose that represents an animal and hold the pose for as long as you can. (Mother Natured)

Arrow Jumping Game: Download the free printable and place arrows around the room for a fun jumping game. (And Next Comes L)

Paper Plate Ring Toss: Let the kids help you make this fun indoor activity! (A Little Learning for Two)

Box Jumping: All you need is some painter's tape. Then, let the jumping begin! (Mama, Papa, Bubba)

Walk the Line: Practice balancing while also developing eye/foot coordination. (Moving Smart)

More fun ideas for young children:

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Oh my goodness, toddlers and preschoolers have a lot of energy, and sometimes we just cannot get outside. Or, we've been outside already and they still have a lot of energy! Yep, this is why I have a list of go-to gross motor activities for indoors. And I am thankful for it!

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As winter is approaching here in Iowa, now is a good time to have some indoor activities planned, for those days that you'll need them. When we have a lot more indoor time, it's so hard to burn off their energy.

I always have a few go-to indoor ideas (like our fine motor rubber band activity and lines of tape), but it's always good to have a way for them to go crazy for a few minutes, in a controlled way that I like.

This is a week of indoor activities that are just also gross motor activities to burn off that energy. There's no 'real' (academic) learning involved, not themed in any way... just good ol' fun movement activities to do inside.

Free feel to plan your own week using our hundreds of indoor activities found here.

Just to give you a little background on how I plan a week of activities for my own kids:

I start with the gauging what my child is interested in (using the "My Child This Week" sheet of the free weekly planner). I fill one out for each of my kids and what they're into at the moment. I use this as my guide to plan our activities accordingly.

With each of my kids' interests, I brainstorm 7 activities to do that week. I jot them down on the simple 'Activities To Do This Week' planner. As for this week of activities to learn a letter, it could be any of our letter learning activities. But for this one in particular, I wanted the ability to be able to focus in on one letter.

And of course, like always, I include a day of family time. I think the kids will especially love this family activity!

Here's a week of super fun indoor gross motor activities to do with the kids.

Monday: Walking on Pillows

Lay pillows and cushions on the floor in a line. Attempt to walk across them!

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Tuesday: Paper Hands & Feet

Trace and cutout your child's hands and feet on paper. Tape the paper hands and feet to the floor and have your child match their hands and feet to the paper. Re-position the paper hands and feet and repeat!

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Wednesday: Indoor snowball fight

Make snowballs with balled up socks, or wadded paper, and have a snowball fight!

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Thursday: A Tape Road

Tape two lines as the sides of the roads around the house! Create intersections and curves!

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Friday: Simple Frisbee Toss

Tape 3 lines of tape on the floor about a foot apart. Stand back and toss the lids like a frisbee to land on the tape line!

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Saturday: Follow the Line Motor Planning

Lay out a jump rope on the floor in a long long. Move a ball from one end to the other along the rope using your hands... how about your foot?

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Sunday: Don't Step in the Lava!

Spread sheets of paper around the room, within jumping distance of each other. Jump from paper to paper to not step in the lava (the bare floor).

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Indoor Movement Activities Weekly Plan

A week of indoor gross motor activities to get the kids moving when you're stuck inside.

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Looking for simple gross motor activities you can do indoors? This is the mega list!

I know how the winter goes - whether you're experiencing it now, or you're in the southern hemisphere and looking forward to it in a few months. You need things for your learners to get those wiggles out, or you're going to go a little crazy!

Here's a list to keep on hand! These are perfect for both the home and the early childhood classroom.
1 - Toss bean bags into baskets
Provide laundry baskets. Then get your learners in several rows, and have them take turns tossing bean bags into the target.

2 - Move on paper plates

Buy some colored paper plates. Then get creative! Place them in a row (red, green, red, green) and have students step on just the red ones. Or have them get down on all fours and "skate" with a plate under each hand. Put the plates in a row to get your students moving around the classroom. Put the plates far apart for biiiig steps. Or put them close together for tiny steps.

3 - Learn with a ball toss

If your learners are able to catch a simple toss, put them in a circle. Then think of a way to incorporate learning with a ball toss. For example, you can throw a ball to a student and name a word. Then s/he names a rhyming word and tosses the ball back to you. Toss it to another student with a new word for him/her to rhyme.

4 - Play "f ind and tag it"

This is a versatile game that can be used to review many different skills. Just tell your learners to find something and tag it. For example, "Find and tag something blue." Or "Find and tag something that starts with /s/."

5 - Move like an animal

You'll need some open space, but this is a great way to get kids using new muscles. Here are some ideas:

Move like a bird (run with arms outstretched)

Move like a snake (wiggle on tummies on the floor)

Move like a bear (walk on all fours)

Move like a frog (get down on haunches and hop)

Move like a kangaroo (take big leaps with arms in front of chest)

Move like an elephant (with heavy stomping)

Move like a penguin (waddle with ankles close together and arms pinned to sides)

Need more ideas? Check out 15 animal walks for sensory input, from Lemon Lime Adventures

6 - Have f un with painter's tape

Painter's tape is one of the best inventions ever. It goes on (and comes off) easily - whether you've got a smooth floor or a carpeted one (but be sure to test it first just to be sure). And there's so much you can do with it! Put it on the floor like a ladder. Then have students see how many rungs they can jump. Can they jump farther with a running start?

See how many rungs they can stretch - or how far they can go on one foot. Need more ideas? Check out this post at Hands on As We Grow.

7 - Play indoor hopscotch

I really think painter's tape is the way to go on this one. 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.

8 - Use balloons

Blow up enough balloons for each of your learners (plus extras, because you know you'll need them after the inevitable popping). 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?

9 - Alphabet action cards

Print our free alphabet action cards - then get active while reviewing the alphabet one letter at a time.

10 - Copy me!

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!)

11 - Create a wiggle jar

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:

Jog in place while you sing the alphabet.

Touch the sky and then your feet five times in a row.

Pretend you're playing the drums.

Fly around the room like a bird.

For wiggle jar ideas, visit Homeschool Share.

12 - Tape balance beam

This is ultra simple, but surprisingly fun! Grab several rolls of colorful painter's tape, and set it on the floor in different lines; make the lines zigzag, curvy, straight, or shaped like a circle, square, or other shape.Then challenge your learners to walk each colored line from beginning to end.

13 - Dance like this

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.

14 - Roll and move

Grab a large soft die (like this one), and write a list of simple exercises on cards. Have one learner draw a card, and another roll the die. The die tells you how many times to do the exercise. Here are some ideas for the exercise cards:

Touch your toes

Do arm circles

Run across the room

Hop on one foot

Jump forward

Take big steps

Take tiny steps

15 - Be an athlete

Have your learners pretend to do one of these sports. Think of it as heart-pumping charades!

16 - Be the weather

Children can use their bodies to be different kinds of weather, such as:

17 - Learning scavenger hunt

Write things your students are learning on sticky notes - they may be letters, numbers, shapes, sight words, etc. Put the sticky notes in various places around the room (some hidden and some obvious), and see how many your learners can find and identify.

18 - Sing active songs

Sing one of these classic songs, and add some actions!

I'm a Little Teapot

If You're Happy and You Know It

The Hokey Pokey

Ring around the Rosie

Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around

Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush

19 - Do alphabet yoga

If you have nap mats or towels, pull them out and challenge your learners to do a yoga pose for various letters of the alphabet.

A - Airplane (hold still and move arms to the side)
B - Bicycle (lie on your back and pedal your feet)
C - Cat pose (get on all fours; then round your back while tucking in your chin; release)

For a list of yoga poses from A-Z (and how to do them!) visit Pink Oatmeal.

And for even more gross motor ideas, check out 3 Dinosaurs' gross motor printable list.

We hope this list gets your learners moving and saves your sanity at the same time!

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Indoor gross motor activities for preschool and kindergarten - The Measured Mom

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It's hard to know what to do with active kids on a rainy day! Thankfully, this post has a huge variety of indoor gross motor activities for preschool and kindergarten. No more crazies! #grossmotor #preschool #kindergarten #rainyday #largemotor

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Looking for home program activities for occupational and physical therapy? We've got you covered!
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We've all seen what happens when kids have extended breaks from school or therapy. Without regular practice with academics and other developmental skills, kids tend to regress and it can take days, weeks, or even months to regain the skills they've lost.

Right now, as so many of us are facing an unexpected and possibly extended time away from schools and clinics, we know that many therapists, teachers, and parents are looking for home program activities and resources to support and promote developmental skills for kids at home.

That's why we've put all of our favorite blog posts, free printables, and other resources in one place for easy access when you're building home programs for kids. Check them out below!

And don't miss these resources - perfect for home programs:
Springtime Activity Pack Spring-Themed Virtual Therapy Pack Pirate-Themed Interactive Movement Game
Occupational and Physical Therapy Home Program Activities

Practice With Scissors
Creative Cutting Practice DIY Cutting Kit Meet Me in the Middle Cutting Activity Hands on Math Activities: Math Cutting Cards [FREE Printable] Cutting Worksheets: Scissor Mazes for Kids! [FREE Printable] Beginner Cutting Skills for Toddlers and Young Kids Letter and Number Identification Road Maps [FREE Printable]
Drawing and Prewriting Practice
Pencil Grasp Development Coloring Pages [Printable Pack] Tracing and Drawing Templates [Printable Pack] Tricky Drawing Practice Easter Egg Drawing Game [FREE Printable]
Handwriting Practice
10 Board Games to Turn into Handwriting Games Practicing Sizing, Alignment, Spacing, and More!
Practice With Dressing Skills
Teaching Kids How to Tie Shoes The Secret to Helping Kids Learn to Put on Shoes Teaching Kids How to Dress Themselves [FREE Printable] Teaching Kids How to Button
Coordination and Motor Planning Activities
Ring Around the Posies Motor Planning Game Using a Yoga Mat to Create Simple Activities for Kids Kids Movement Activities Using Tape 10 Creative Obstacle Course Ideas for Kids How to Help Kids Practice Kicking a Ball Gross Motor Apps for Kids Keep scrolling for more home program ideas!
Balance Practice
Balance Practice for Kids 20 Creative Ways to Practice Single Leg Stance
Core Strengthening
Body Bridges Core Strength Activity Core Strengthening Through Everyday Play [FREE Printable] Simple Core Strengthening With a Playground Ball [FREE Printable] All of Our Best Core Strengthening Ideas for Kids The Easiest Core Strengthening Exercises for Kids The Core Strengthening Handbook The Core Strength Exercise Program
Hand Strength
Hand Strength: 35 Fun Activities for Kids Hand Strengthening Through Everyday Play [FREE Printable] Tape Collage Worksheets [FREE Printable] The Hand Strengthening Handbook The Hand Strength Exercise Program
Sensory Activities
35 Mess-Free Sensory Play Activities 50 Sensory Ideas for Small Spaces [FREE Printable] Sensory Motor Scavenger Hunt [FREE Printable] 25 Heavy Work Activities for Small Spaces [FREE Printable] The Simplest Calming Sensory Trick: Deep Pressure [FREE Printable] Keeping Kids Calm: The Best Calming Movement Ideas DIY Balloon Fidget Toys for Kids
Visual Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills
I Spy With a Twist [FREE Printable] Snowy Animal Tracks Game [FREE Printable]
Behavior and Self-Regulation
10 Transition Strategies for Kids: Preventing Tantrums 30 Games and Activities for Self-Regulation [FREE Printable] Reset Activities: Calming After a Tantrum Volume Game for Kids [FREE Printable]
Other Ideas and Resources
Chores for Kids to Promote Developmental Skills 10 Days to Conquer Printable Challenges [FREE Printables] Quadruped: Why it's Important and 10 Fun Ways to Play! Prone Position: 14 Fun Activities for Kids!
Books to Recommend to Families
150 Screen-Free Activities for Kids Playful Learning Lab for Kids The Core Strengthening Handbook The Hand Strengthening Handbook
Games to Recommend to Families
The Best Therapy Games for Kids Games to Strengthen Core Muscles Hand Strengthening Toys for Kids
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Occupational and Physical Therapy Home Program Activities - The Inspired Treehouse

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Looking for home program activities for occupational and physical therapy? We've got you covered! *This post contains affiliate links. Read more. We've all seen what happens when kids have extended breaks from school or therapy. Without regular practice with academics and other developmental skills, kids tend to regress and it can take days, weeks, or ...

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Here are some ideas on how to work on the stairs, jumping, riding a bike, and other skills.

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Activity Ideas Archives - DINOSAUR PHYSICAL THERAPY

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Stair Climbing Tips and Tricks! Teaching Children to Climb Stairs Independently!

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Here is how to make your own "Simon" game out of chalk on your driveway.

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I realize that I am dating myself with the following question - how many of you remember playing the electronic memory game "Simon" growing up? Thanks to a tip from one of our FB followers, I discovered a FREE Simon like app ( Simon Says) which has quickly become a favorite of my daughter. She had suggested on more than one occasion how much fun it would be if we could create a "life sized" version.

Earlier this week, we did just that thanks to some rainbow colored chalk (and above average temperatures).

The original Simon game includes for sections colored: red, blue, yellow, green. We decided to make ours the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) in honor of St. Patrick's Day.

Have your child start by standing in the center of the "game board". Begin by saying a color ("red"). The child will jump to that color and then back to the center. Say the first color and add another ("red, yellow"). The child will jump to the first color ( red), next color ( yellow) and then back to the center. Keep adding one color until you have 6-8 in the sequence.

The round "ends" when the child completes the entire sequence, can no longer remember the pattern, or misses a color block. Then it's your turn to jump as your child dictates the sequence :)

Not only was this a fun and active way to practice saying and recognizing the colors of the rainbow, but a great memory building activity as well.

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Sidewalk Simon: Colors of The Rainbow Learning Activity

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I realize that I am dating myself with the following question - how many of you remember playing the electronic memory game "Simon" growing up? Thanks to a tip from one of our FB followers, I discovered a FREE Simon like app ( Simon Says) which has quickly become a favorite of my daughter.

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This website has resources for incorporating vision and learning.

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Eye Can Learn | Eye Exercises for Visual Health and School Success

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Here is a kid's yoga website based in stories. It may take some time to learn the moves but looks like it could be lots of fun.