Movement Ideas

• Cosmic Kids Yoga: 10 to 20 minute yoga videos for kids 3+

  • https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

• Stop Dance: children dance to music and freeze when you pause

• Walking on the Line: use a ribbon or masking tape to create an ellipse on the ground for children to walk on; make it more challenging by balancing objects on a spoon, carrying a cup of water, or balancing a bean bag on an elbow, hand, or head

• Chalk Movement Challenges: use chalk (or masking tape, if inside) to draw spirals, zig-zag lines, and other shapes for children to walk on; use chalk to draw circles at varying distances to jump on (like frogs on lilypads)

• Jumping Work: use a short piece of robe, ribbon or yarn on a small mat or blanket as a place for children to jump back and forth over the line

• “This is the Way I….” Movement Song

  • Tune: All Around the Mulberry Bush

  • “This is the way I clap my hands, clap my hands, clap my hands. This is the way I clap my hands when I am at circle”

  • Alternate different actions for unlimited verses

  • “When I am at circle” could be replaced with “when I am having fun” to make it more applicable for home.

• Zero Game

  • Give action commands with a number (e.g., “Please turn around three times”)

  • Occasionally, make a command to do an action zero times. Children find it so funny that they don’t have to do anything.