PE Activities at Home

KEEPING ACTIVE AT HOME PE Activities for Years F - 2 Stay active for the next month by selecting an activity to do each day I’M GOING ON A BEAR HUNT FOLLOW THE LEADER A-MAZE-ING ANIMAL WALKS Read or sing the classic Take turns at being the Have an adult or older sibling Use some imagination and “We’re Going on Bear Hunt”. leader. Think about the create a maze on the come up with different If you can get outdoors, see if places you can go and the driveway. Can the younger movements for a variety of the neighbours have bears in actions you can perform as kids also create one for the animals, such as waddling the window. If you’re staying you walk around. older members of the like a duck and swimming at home, perform the bhousehold to complete? like a fish. actions. CLEAN UP RACE! MR WOLF KEEP THE BALLOON UP LEAF PLAY Pick a room or area that An oldie but a goodie. Play Simply keep the balloon off If Autumn leaves have fallen, needs to be packed or tidied. this game in a large space if the ground by tapping it! rake them into a big pile and Time how long it’s available. You can even This exercise can be modified jump on it takes to get adapt it so there are different to egg and spoon balloon in! it all clean and actions or movements during race and using objects such reset! the chase. as a wooden spoon to tap it up. BALANCE BEAM JUMP ROPE HOT POTATO CRAB WALK All you need to set this up is Don’t have a rope at home? Using a soft ball This is much harder than it some chalk or masking tape. You can make one from or rolled up socks, looks! Sit on the ground, Have the kids balance and plastic bags - click here for pass the “hot with hands and feet touching perform routines on the instructions. You can also potato” around as quickly as the ground. Raise the torso, “beam”. Mix it up with jump over a drawn line or possible. Try using music - if then start walking. Need to spirals and zigzags! use sticks. you’re holding the potato see it in action? Click here. when it stops, you’re out. HOPSCOTCH PARACHUTE KNOCK OUT BUBBLES This classic game can be Using an old, large sheet, Set up some empty cans, Have the kids blow bubbles played anywhere you have a have the family grab bottles or Tupperware in an or add some extra activity by bit of space. If you’re after a different parts around the open space. From a distance, making variation, try edge and fan it upwards. try to knock them all over them pop the “snail”, Take turns running under using a soft toy, tennis ball the ones pictured and pop some soft balls or or rolled up socks. that you here. toys on top for extra fun! blow! DON’T TOUCH THE LAVA! SPIDER WEB COTTON BALL CRAWL PUZZLE HUNT The floor is lava and you Use any kind Using cotton balls and a Hide parts of a puzzle need to get from one space of tape to spoon, move a pile of cotton throughout the house. Have to another. Use pillow cases form a web balls from one room to the kids collect the pieces as “islands” spaced at over a door another, only taking one ball and create the puzzle. Basic different distances apart. frame. From at a time. This can be turned wooden puzzles and floor a distance, kids throw rolled into a friendly competition puzzles are ideal for this up paper balls at the web. with other family members! activity. .

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