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Goal HPD-2: Children engage in active physical play indoors and outdoors

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Goal HPD-2: Children engage in active physical play indoors and outdoors

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Goal HPD-5: Children develop small muscle control and hand-eye coordination to manipulate objects and work with tools.

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Goal HPD-5: Children develop small muscle control and hand-eye coordination to manipulate objects and work with tools.

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- Energy
- coordination
- balance
- Motor skills
- Teamwork
- Active
- Adventure

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What is being active? Do you have to be moving be active?

What ways can you be active in the classroom?

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An example of music in the class room is kidsbop or other kids friendly music.

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Examples include basketball, football, dodgeball, baseball, etc.

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Using physical activity with a ball to grow hand-eye coordination 

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Using physical activity with a ball to grow hand-eye coordination 

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This hands on activity will help grow children's hand-eye coordination. There are all different kinds of balls they can choose from to throw and catch. When kids are throwing and catching the ball they are strengthen their hand-eye coordination. This activity will allow the students to be physically active and work as a team. This natures creativity by the students being able to throw the ball on their own and play a game they made up with their partner.

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Music can be used in many ways. One great way it could be used inside and cause students to move around is to have student do certain movements to a song. This would be helping children be active while inside. This would allow the kids to be creativity with their dances and movements. These kinds of things are great for brain breaks.

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Get Up to Get Down | Movement Song for Kids | Brain Breaks  | Jack Hartmann

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There are many different way to be physically active indoor. In this activity the teacher or instructor could have the students do an animal movement back to their seats. This would allow the students to get some of their energy out and movement around indoors. This allow a lot of creativity because the kids would be using their mind to act how they think the animal would.

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Kindergarten Physical Education - Animal Exercises

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Making Jewelry to gain hand-eye coordination

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Making Jewelry to gain hand-eye coordination

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In this activity the students would be working on strengthen there creative side and hand-eye coordination. The students would be given a string and beads. They would put together their own piece of jewelry. They would be able to be creative and make whatever design they wanted to.

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Now that Bo is 3, fine motor practice is something we try to do a couple times a week. I don't feel like it is necessary to do tons of formal schooling in preschool, but I do believe that certain play-based activities through totschooling can help develop skills that are used in formal schooling later on.

This week, we strengthened our fine motor skills by making this stringing beads activity.

We used this activity as part of a thematic unit with activities using tweezers.

Stringing Beads Activity for Preschool

You don't need much to complete this super-simple fine motor practice activity!

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Stringing beads fine motor skills

Stringing beads strengthens a lot of skills for preschoolers and toddlers. If you use tweezers, the kids can strengthen their hand strength and squeezing skills.

The kids also learn how to pick up beads with a pincher grip, and slip them onto the string, which takes dexterity.

Supplies for the stringing beads fine motor activity:

Toddler Bead Necklace Fine Motor Practice

The goal of this fine motor practice activity was to strengthen the hands by using tweezers or tongs to pick up the beads before stringing them onto the yarn.

However, Bo really didn't want to use the tweezers, so she ended up just using her hands. Sometimes, not all tools work for all activities!

At any rate, we found it was a lot easier to string the beads when I did this:

I tied a bead to the end of the string so that the beads could not slip off the back end.

I knotted the other end of the yarn with a small knot so that the yarn did not unravel. This made it easy enough for Bo to grasp and use without getting frustrated.

Monkey also wanted in on the action and created this rainbow necklace.

When Bo got bored, we tied her yarn string into a necklace. She was quite proud to be wearing a necklace that she made.

She wanted to sleep with it that night, but I'm always afraid of choking hazards, so we just let her keep it beside her rather than wear it.

Sometimes the simplest fine motor practice activities are the best!

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Now that Bo is 3, fine motor practice is something we try to do a couple times a week. I don't feel like it is necessary to do tons of formal schooling in preschool, but I do believe that certain play-based activities through totschooling can help develop skills that are used in formal schooling later on.

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There is a lot you can with bubbles. This activity could fit into active physical play and hand-eye coordination. For the physical aspect the kids could chase the bubbles, stump them or jump for them. To work on the hand-eye coordination part you could blow the bubbles and the child could catch them. There is a lot of creativity in this for the child because they can do a lot of different things to pop this bubble. This activity will allow the child to move around a lot and have fun.

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How Playing with Bubbles benefits Toddlers

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Popping bubbles is the highlight of Toddler Play. But did you know that playing with bubbles is beneficial for your toddler's faster development? Read on to know the 5 ways in which playing with toddlers helps develop their gross motor skills.