Play a game of oversized memory matching – you have to squat and move around the cards.
Go on a nature scavenger hunt or play outdoor bingo.
Outdoor Gross Motor Skills and Activities at Home
Play with bean bags (make your own with rice inside socks if needed).
Kick a balloon against the wall and back again.
Hang a balloon from the ceiling and hit it with a cardboard tube.
Try catching a balloon on a funnel from your kitchen drawer.
Sit on the floor and lift feet in the air.
Pretend to ice skate using paper plates.
– One of my favorite gross motor skills activities! Bowl with a ball or roll into the bottles with your body.
Use recycled water bottles and set up bowling.
Load up laundry baskets with heavy books and push around the room.
Take a blanket ride – pull someone on a blanket across the floor.
Move Like Me – strike a pose and the other person mimics it.
Make your body into the shapes of the letters of the alphabet.
Jump side to side over a shoe lace on the floor.
Rip scrap paper in half and jump from paper to paper.
Try walking at different speeds – super slow, slow, normal, fast and super fast.
Need ideas? Check out Animal Actions A to Z.
Practice walking like different animals.
Tall kneel walking across the room to complete a puzzle.
Crawling or walking over different pillows or blankets.
50 Screen Free Gross Motor Skills and Activities for Home Indoor Gross Motor Skills and Activities There are plenty of video or apps to encourage physical activity in children BUT it is also important for children to participate in SCREEN FREE gross motor activities.
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