Opportunities for physical activity in daily routines

[Ruthierhyme]

A few ideas and links to help identify times where physical activity might occur when children are inside and outside, please add on with times your children are active ...



inside and outside:

Digging
Running
Walking - backwards and forwards
Balancing
Jumping
Climbing
Sliding
Rolling
Crawling
Standing up
Sitting down
Ride ons - seeated
Pushalongs - wheelbarrows etc - standing
Kicking
Hopping
Striding
Straddling
Swinging
Lifting
Catching
Throwing
Creeping, Tip-toeing
Singing
Acting/role play
Shouting
Talking
Whispering
Waving
Clapping
Dancing
Dressing
Kneading
Making facial expressions

Holding and manipulating tools:

-- cutting
-- sawing
-- applying crayon, pen, paint, chalk
-- blowing bubbles
-- brushing teeth
-- picking up, scooping, pouring, serving & dividing, sprinkling, drizzling, spraying, placing
-- threading
-- bat, racquet & ball, shuttlecock

Sports:
rowing, archery, slingshot, javeling, hurdles, swimming,



Routines in a day ...

Planning, and balancing fine motor & gross motor experiences, stationary & locomotive activity might include ..

Table top activity
Floor space activity
Contrast between what happens indoor and what happens outdoors
Role play areas
Small world areas
Circle times
Storytimes
Music
Rhythm and rhyme
Cookery
Games
Large adventure equipment/area - swings, slides, roundabouts
Snack/food & drink areas
Mixed media trays - sand, water, dried pas, rice, foil shreds, soil
Activities for whole body enclosure - hide & find, playing with boxes, tunnels
Eating
Handwashing
Hand drying
Toileting

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Making snow angels or fairies - book review!
Hopscotch article
Messages in bottles - float or sink ..
Beans game
Sandcastle flags
Duck races in a water tray
Going on a bear search ..
Threading caterpillar counters