Activity Calendar

GET MOVING TODAY! ACTIVITY CALENDAR

Funding for this project was provided by the Office of Head Start, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services © SHAPE America – Society of Health and Physical Educators  www.shapeamerica.org 1900 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191  703.472.3400  Fax 703.476.9527  [email protected] January Get Moving Today! ACTIVITY CALENDAR Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Start the New Year off Recycle the paper plates Rainbow Game – find as with a family walk. As Get outside again and Cut out paper Practice rolling your Make a hopscotch from yesterday and set many things in your you walk, share the work on the concept of snowflakes and make a body into different pattern on the floor up targets on the floor – home that are different ways that your family big and small. Can you trail through your home. shapes and then moving using paper plates, and close and far. Using colors of the rainbow. can stay healthy this take big steps and small Walk, run, and hop across the floor. Can work on your rolled up socks practice When you get to each year. steps? Big jumps and along the trail. you be straight like a hopping/jumping skills your underhand tossing item, jog in place and small jumps? pencil and small like a while you help your body skills. Remember to count to 10. marble? get fit. follow through by pointing at the target. Shut off the lights and Move across the room Go for a winter have fun with a flashlight acting like something. wilderness walk. As you Make a big pile of clean Twist, turn, bounce, Using a make believe Time for a winter rock dance. When the When you get to the walk, take deep breaths. socks. Move quickly as bend. Try doing each of paintbrush, paint your party. Turn on the music flashlight is shined onto other side, someone has you match the pairs and these movements with house. Stretch high, and dance until you feel a body part, move it in to guess what you were run them to a different different parts of your reach low, paint fast and your heart beating really different ways – wiggle, and then they have to part of your home. body. Can you think of paint slow. fast. reach, bend and stretch. copy your movements. other ways to move? Read a book with your Play “add-on”. Take Go ice skating inside! Find a bunch of pillows family – act out the Using a laundry basket turns doing one simple Put two paper plates on and set up an obstacle movements in the book. and recycled paper, Build your muscles movement, such as the floor and use them Make a tunnel using course. Use the pillows make a bunch of paper today by acting like a bending your elbow. As to skate around. Try chairs and a blanket. as rocks to step on as balls and practice crab, a bear and a seal. you do a new taking big steps or small Have fun crawling you cross the river. throwing into the basket movement, repeat the steps; try going in a through it and running Don’t get wet! from different distances. movements that have straight line or a curvy around it. already been done. line. Practice your galloping Today you are going to Roll up some socks, put Play follow-the-leader in Copy me. Toss a mitten Sit on a t-shirt and move today. Try to use your Go on an imaginary be “rain”. Can you act them on a big beach your house. Take turns in the air, do a trick and around the floor using hands to do other things walking trip. Pretend to out a mist, or a drizzle, towel, hold one the ends moving to a different catch the mitten. Can only your arms to pull while your legs are walk through the sand, or a downpour? What of the towel and fling the room and then do a fun someone copy you? and push. galloping – such as over a bridge, into the about a windy rain, a socks into the air. movement in each room. Now you copy them! waving, clapping, or mud, or under a tree. cold rain, or a heavy snapping. rain? Practice your rhyming Practice your kicking Read through each day It “rained” yesterday so Find two different songs skills while moving. Say skills. Roll up a big pair Play “Movement Let’s go silly walking! again and repeat your there are lots of puddles – one fast and one slow. any movement word you of socks and kick them Emotional Charades”. Walk all around your favorite January activity. today. Pretend to run Do a fast dance and can think of – like run. across the room into a Use your entire body to home acting out different Enjoy! through the puddles, then do a relaxing slow Then think of words that laundry basket turned act out different emotions. Can you walk jump over the puddles, stretch. rhyme with it. Act out onto its side. emotions and see if happy, sad, shy and crawl around the your words. Have fun, someone can guess angry? puddles, and splash in as you run, under the what you are feeling. the puddles. sun!

Funding for this project was provided by the Office of Head Start, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services © SHAPE America – Society of Health and Physical Educators  www.shapeamerica.org 1900 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191  703.472.3400  Fax 703.476.9527  [email protected] February Get Moving Today! ACTIVITY CALENDAR Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Celebrate Heart Health Start today with jumping Ask others in your family Play the “Mirror Game”. this month! Everything jacks. Is your heart Silly walking around the to pretend to be in a Face your Explore Speed – move Time to get outside and we do this month will beating faster? house – walk all around parade with you. Each of parent/caregiver and fast, then really slow, take a Nature Walk help your heart be your house acting out you can imagine that copy what they do with and now in between. around your house or healthy. Put your hand different emotions – can you are playing a their bodies as if you Which one makes your neighborhood. Make on your heart after every you walk happy, sad, different instrument as were looking into a heart go faster? sure to go with a grown physical activity. shy, angry? you march in a line. mirror. up. Read a book with Pretend you are floating Turn on some music and Move like things around someone and act out the through the air like a Ask someone to help Make a circle on the try to run in place for Act out the foods that the house. Can you be a words. bubble. Your job is to you make paper floor with a string and one song. Feel your make your heart healthy. blender? Now be the move all through your airplanes and then work practice moving into, out heart when the song is Be a tiny blueberry, a washing machine. How house without being on your throwing skills. of, around, over and over. Now lay down for curvy banana, and a about a vacuum? What popped. Try to get really Remember to step with beside. Make a different one song. Feel your swimming fish. does this do to your close to things without the opposite foot. shape with your string. heart again. heart? touching them. Time for a winter rock Visit every doorway in party. Turn on the music your home and when and dance until you feel Twist, turn, bounce, and you get there try to do a Run like a bear with your Spread out wash cloths your heart beating really bend - try doing each of Give away five hugs to Be a clean machine! different balance. hands on paper plates and move across the fast. these movements with make your heart happy Dust – reach high, low, Balance on one hand and your feet on the floor stepping only on different parts of your and healthy today! over and under as you and two feet, or one ground. Push the plates the wash cloths. Try not body. Can you think of work your muscles. knee and two hands. through different to touch the floor. other ways to move? How long can you hold pathways. each one? Get outside and work on Body Ball Roll – using a Place a sheet of Yoga Zoo Animals – put Make your heart healthy your jumping skills. Find ball, such as a beach newspaper on your Wad up balls of Visit every window in your body into different today! Lie down and feel a rope and lay it on the ball, work on rolling the tummy – try to run newspaper and see how your home, and when animal shapes. Stretch your heart then get up ground – practice ball around your body. without it falling off. far you can throw them. you get there try to jump and reach and hold the and run in place and feel jumping back and forth Stand up, sit down, Remember to step with as high as you can as shape as you remember your heart. What over it as you sing your kneel or lay down. Go the opposite foot as you you reach and stretch. to breathe. happened? favorite song. around the whole body throw. What does this do and different body parts. to your heart? Play Add-On. Take turns Sweep the floor, working doing one simple your reaching and Using the newspaper movement, such as Play catch with pulling and pushing Using a laundry basket Get outside and work on Read through each day balls from yesterday – bending your head someone with a rolled motions. and recycled paper, the idea of BIG and again and repeat your hold them between your forward and backwards. up t-shirt. Can you toss make a bunch of paper small. Can you take big favorite February knees and take them to As you do a new it up and catch it on balls and practice steps and small steps, activity. Enjoy! the other end of the movement, repeat the different body parts? throwing into the basket big jumps and small room. movements that have from different distances. jumps? already been done.

Funding for this project was provided by the Office of Head Start, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services © SHAPE America – Society of Health and Physical Educators  www.shapeamerica.org 1900 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191  703.472.3400  Fax 703.476.9527  [email protected] March Get Moving Today! ACTIVITY CALENDAR Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday “Chair Exercise”. Move Take a few minutes Start the month off with around, under, and over Loud and soft – first Tear newspaper into Be a superhero! Think Ask someone to go for a today to lie on the floor a game of follow the a chair; sit down and walk on your tip toes long strips – crunch about all of your favorite walk with you and as and stretch your body leader. Move around stand up using a chair; trying to be really quiet, them up into balls – superhero’s and then you walk, make up a from head to toe. Take your house in different turn on music and then stomp using your throw the balls into a spend some time little song about moving some deep breaths and ways as someone wiggle & stretch while whole foot trying to be basket – Rip-Crunch- moving just like they and having fun together. relax as you reach and copies your movements. sitting in a chair. really loud. Throw. would. then relax. Using paper plates as Make a pile of paper Get outside and pick up pretend stones; make an balls by crunching Using the balls from trash in your yard. Crawling is a great way indoor nature trail recycled paper. For one yesterday put them in a Take a “spring is here” How many different to work on the muscles through your house. minute throw these balls pile. Crab walk with one walk. Swing your arms ways can you carry a in your arms. Try to Walk through the nature all over the playing ball at a time on your as you walk quickly. sock as your move crawl around your home trail by only stepping space – making a tummy, carry it across Notice all the signs of around the house? for a few minutes – take onto the make believe blizzard of balls. Collect the room. Move all the spring! a break and do it again. stones. them and do it again. balls to a new pile. Turn on some music and Work on your locomotor Pull a wagon around Make a trail of paper take turns choosing a Leaping! Put pillows on skills – go outside and Pickup marbles with outside as you pick up Make it backwards day. plates through your way to move. the floor and practice practice walking, your fingers and toes. sticks. Create and Move from room to room home and pretend that your leaping skills. Push running, galloping, Lie on the floor and blow obstacle course with the backwards. Try to high you can only walk on the off of your back leg and skipping, jumping and the marbles across the things you find. and low, fast and slow. plates or you will fall in reach with your front leg. hopping. floor. the water. Using a scarf or Have an adult write your Animal Action Fun! One handkerchief, practice name really big on a Twins – for 2-5 minutes Go on a walk through Get outside today and person says the name of your self-toss and catch sheet of paper, and then pretend as if you are your home. Each time play “I Spy”. Each time an animal and the other skills. Watch the scarf put your body into the Make up a nonsense connected to someone you get to a new space one of you says, “I spy”, person has to move with your eyes and shapes of each letter. word. Now make up a else and the two of you you have to change the you have to all walk, run around the house like move your body so the Can you do this standing movement to go with have to move exactly way you are moving. or gallop to that object. that animal would. scarf can land in your up? Can you do this that word. the same way. hands. laying on the floor? Pretend to have a beach Pretend your arms or Put a sock puppet on Pretend to be a balloon Work on your tossing Balance on two body Repeat your favorite party. Turn on some foot or elbow or nose is your hand and have it – first without air, then and catching skills with parts. How about three activity this month! beach music and dance. a crayon and draw a big travel high, low, fast, being blow up, then someone. Toss it right to parts or four or ever five Pretend to surf and picture of a rainbow in slow, curvy and straight. floating around the their hands. body parts? swim as you work your your home. room, and then being body. popped!

April Get Moving Today! ACTIVITY CALENDAR Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Pretend you have a farm. Act out the I spy something red! Have fun on April Fool’s different things you Get down on the floor Run and touch Using an empty paper Work those muscles by Jump 13 times – hop 13 Day. Act out an emotion would see, like a horse and roll around – roll in a something red. I spy towel roll and a balloon; crawling, bear walking, times – march 13 steps and see if someone can galloping, a pig rolling in straight line, roll in a tiny something yellow! work on volleying the crab walking, and – reach up high 13 guess what you are the mud, and a farmer ball, roll across the Gallop and touch balloon so it does not slithering like a snake times. feeling. picking apples high in a room. something yellow. touch the floor. across the room. tree. Work on your bending, Time to march! Pretend Practice your walking Pretend that your home Help out in the kitchen – With a ball that bounces, twisting, shaking, to have your favorite today – swing your is full of mud puddles sweep the floor and work on bouncing and Can you do a jumping reaching, and crunching. instrument and march as arms, keep your head and your job is to jump wipe down the counters. catching skills. Drop the jack? Give it a try. Can you think of other you play. Can someone up, shoulders back. Do over them without Use great big ball and catch it after it ways to move while guess what instrument this outside! getting wet and dirty. movements to work all bounces. staying in one spot? you are playing? your muscles. Find lines on the Roll a t-shirt into a lasso Turn some music on and Get outside and run, sidewalk or driveway Have fun rolling around Try to wiggle and shake and move it in circles Practice your hopping. move to the beat. This is gallop, and jump all and jump over them. your home. Work on every part of your body, above your head, in Remember to take off more fun if someone over. Feel your heart Remember to land softly rolling in a straight line one by one. Then wiggle front and behind and to and land on the same does it with you. when you are done – on two feet. and a curvy line. or shake your entire the side. Do it with the foot. Hop near and far, what is it doing? body. other hand too. high and low. Find four pillows that are Sit on a t-shirt, roll up different sizes. Can you another t-shirt and hold Pretend to be a seed Find a ball and practice balance on each one Ask someone to practice Wad up a tissue. Lie on to one end as that is planted in the kicking. How far can you without falling off? tossing and catching down on the floor like a someone else holds on Running is a great way ground and then grows make the ball go? How with you. Keep your eye snake and blow the to the other end and to make your heart into a big, strong tree. high can you make it on the ball as you move tissue across the floor. pulls you around the healthy. Try to run for 2 go? your body to the ball. room. Your turn to pull minutes without them. stopping. Transport me! Put one Time to stretch and Time to get outside and What was your favorite? Put a paper plate on small item on a paper Go on a walk through reach. Turn your body Using kitchen tongs, move. Ask someone in Go back and repeat your your head and walk plate and carry the plate your home. How many into different shapes and practice picking up wash your family to come out favorite April activity. across the room without on your palm to the steps does it take to get hold each shape, as you cloths and carrying them with you it falling off. Can you other side of the room. from one space to squeeze your muscles. to the other side of the bend down and get back Can you carry two another? room, run back and do it up without it falling off? items? How about again three?

May Get Moving Today! ACTIVITY CALENDAR Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Take a walk. Each time Motions of the Weather. Practice your throwing Rainbow Run. Talk Log Rolls – find a safe Silly Run: Get outside Pretend that your elbow you see a sign of spring Use your body to skills. Find a big target about the colors of the space in your house and and run. Try running in a or your foot is a great do 10 jumps for joy. pretend to be different and throw as hard as rainbow and as you practice rolling in a straight line, a curvy line, big crayon, and move all types of weather. Rain, you can at it. Work on name a color run and straight, strong line. Use and then a zigzag line. around your home wind, thunder, stepping right at the touch three things that those muscles. coloring the most snow…get creative. target with your are that color. beautiful picture. “opposite” foot. Find an extra chore that Turn on some music and Statues Game: Put your Say the ABC’s by Go for a walk – breath in Can you skip? Give it a Can you leap? Pretend will help you become a make your body into a balanced putting your body into the air as you swing try – step, hop, step, that your house is full of better mover (sorting parent/caregiver dance position and hold it while the shape of each letter. your arms and hold your hop. puddles and your job is clothes to work on with you. Tell them they you count to 10. Try a head high. to leap over all of them. throwing skills; sweeping have to dance for at more challenging Don’t get wet!  the floor to work on least two whole songs. position. strength). Cut out a bunch of Find different kinds of Get silly today and make Get outside and pick up Go outside and explore Pick up your room! Each different shapes, put the shoes in your house. up a new sound or word trash. Use different speed – try moving time you pick something shapes in a pile and Pretend to move as if and then make up a new forms of movement to What animals do you really fast. Now move up do five jumps before then try putting your you were wearing each action to go along with travel to each new piece see in the spring? Act very slowly. Practice you put it away. body into these odd kind of shoe. Stomp in that word or sound. of garbage. them out. changing from fast to shapes. your boots, prance in slow. your slippers, slide in your skates. Practice your ball rolling Nature Statues Game: Become a cloud! Watch Draw some lines outside Do the Opposite! Work Pretend to play your skills by rolling a ball Name something that the clouds today and on the sidewalk using on doing opposite favorite instrument and back and forth with you would see in nature change your body into chalk. Practice jumping movements, such as run go on a parade around Ask someone to help someone. Each time you then put your body into all of the shapes that the over them. Work on fast and slow, reach the yard. you make a hopscotch roll it, back up one step. that shape. Try to hold clouds make – then float bending your knees and high and low, march soft pattern with paper that shape while you through space going using your arms to get and hard. plates. Practice hopping count to 10. high, low, fast and slow. high and far. Also and jumping. remember to land softly All Aboard! Find a big Take five minutes – go Get outside and play Read your favorite Motions of the Weather: Make yourself really Go back and repeat the towel or blanket and to every space in your catch. Follow the ball Nursery Rhyme and put Use your bodies to small and on the count activities that you really spread it out on the home and do a funny with your eyes and actions to it so you can pretend to be different of three spring up into enjoyed this month! floor. Stand on it, move dance that makes your move to where the ball say it with your body. types of weather. Rain, the air, reaching and on it, then fold it up a parent/caregiver laugh. is going. wind, thunder, stretching to make little. Can you still stand Make them do the dance snow…get creative! yourself really big. and move on it? Fold it with you. again – move again. How small can you make the towel?

Funding for this project was provided by the Office of Head Start, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services © SHAPE America – Society of Health and Physical Educators  www.shapeamerica.org 1900 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191  703.472.3400  Fax 703.476.9527  [email protected] June Get Moving Today! ACTIVITY CALENDAR Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Go outside and run in Make a paper airplane Work on your tossing Play catch with Find an open space and Say three different Go for a family walk and big, small, and medium and see how far you can skills. Find some small someone. Start really work on rolling in motions as your partner take turns saying sized circles. make it fly. objects to toss into a close and after every different ways - long, does them, such as something you are really box. Keep backing up to two tosses back up one straight body and a touch your nose, spin happy about or thankful see if you can toss step. curled up small body. around, and jump up for. further. high. Take turns. Work on dribbling a ball. Pretend to be a growing Try saying tap, tap, run, flower. First you are the Draw or cut out some Turn on some slow, Pretend that you are at a Ask someone to pitch run as you do the same Use wet sponges to tiny seed in the ground odd shapes, then put quiet music – lie on the magical zoo. Identify an some balls to you as you with the ball and your work on your throwing. and then you slowly your body into each floor, relax, breath and animal; move and sound try to hit them with a big, feet. Throw sponges at a big grow into a big, tall shape. stretch. like that animal. soft bat. target such as a building flower that blows in the or garage door. wind. Fill a cup full of water. Work on throwing really Can you run around Can you walk while you Walk and run around hard. Remember to Make up a silly dance, Draw a hopscotch Stretch your body into your building carrying balance a book on your your home four times. bring the ball back to show it to someone, and pattern outside and work the shapes of each letter the cup without losing head? Each time try to go a your ear and take a nice then ask them to do it on your jumping and in your name. Stretch much water. little faster. big step forward. with you. hopping skills. big and small. Have a three legged Put a t-shirt on the floor, Work on moving in Set up a bunch of walk with someone in Ask someone to take Make your arms strong bend over and put your Draw circles, squares, different directions – targets and work on your family. Stand side you to a park and try to by walking like different hands on it, then push it and triangles on the forward, backward, throwing or rolling a ball by side, with your inside keep moving for 15 animals around your all over the space driveway and practice sideways. at them to knock them legs touching – these minutes without stopping yard - bear, crab, seal, tossing rolled up socks over. two legs should move - run, climb, jump, and etc. into each shape together as one leg. swing. Find a little hill and roll Practice your volleying Play catch with a water down it, run back up and Work on your kicking skills. Find a balloon and balloon. Make a nice Draw different shapes Work on dribbling a ball Go back and do your do it again. skills. Try running up to try to keep it up in the soft home for the balloon with sidewalk chalk and with your feet. Try favorite activity this the ball, swing your leg air. Try volleying it with with your hands, and practice moving over, saying tap, tap, run, run month! back and then kick different parts of your “give” with your body as around, and into them. as you do the same with through the ball. body. you catch it. your feet and the ball.

July Get Moving Today! ACTIVITY CALENDAR Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Have fun in the water Run in the pathway of Practice your throwing Get your body wet and Play catch with a water Pretend to swat a fly. Set up an obstacle today – really try to use each letter of your skills. Step at your target then lay down on the balloon. Make a nice Use a foam noodle to course using things to all of your muscles. name. Make each letter and follow through driveway. When you get soft home for the balloon run around your yard jump over, go around, big and then small. toward your target. up you will see an with your hands, and swatting flies. and even move under. impression of your body. “give” with your body as See how fast you can do Practice jumping over you catch it. it. yourself. Do the course you did Pretend to go on a trip Find a bouncy ball and Play throwing golf: Take Draw different shapes Plan a family fitness Throw into a target. Find yesterday but go today – drive your car, practice bouncing and turns throwing a ball with sidewalk chalk and day. Let everyone different sized boxes through it the other fly in an airplane, ride a catching. Bounce it off toward a big target. How practice moving over, choose one activity and and practice throwing direction. motorcycle, and paddle the ground or off of the many throws does it around, and into them. then do all of them into each of them. Try it a boat. Really use your side of a building. take to get there? Pick a together today. near and far. muscles. new target. Before you go to bed Make a musical tonight, lie on the floor instrument and have Find three different Make up a new game As soon as you get up On the 13th you were Find time to laugh and and as you breathe, try your own parade. things that you can jump today using an empty today – do 10 jumps, 10 asked to plan a family move with your family. to make every muscle over that are each a plastic bottle and a ball. reaches, 10 twists, and fitness day; have you? Either go for a walk, tight and then every different height. 10 crazy moves. swim, or hike. muscle relaxed. Set up a variety of Set up those same Practice your locomotor Find something to climb targets – bottles, cans, targets as yesterday, but Toss, kick and catch! Blow bubbles and chase movements. Walk, run, – make sure you ask Dig a hole in the sand. buckets. Then work on today work on kicking at Have fun with a beach them around the yard. gallop, jump, hop, slide, your parent/caregiver Use your muscles. throwing at them from them from different ball. skip and leap. Which first. different distances. distances. one is your favorite? Turn on some fast, fun Play Add On Movement Ask someone to take Set up a sprinkler and Skip around your home Get your feet wet and Find your favorite music and take turns Fun! Do one movement, you to a park. Play on have fun running as you sing your favorite make tracks on the activity from this month making up new moves. then your partner every piece of through it. Try running song. sidewalk. Try taking big and do it again! Your job is to try to keep repeats it but adds on equipment. around the house after steps and then small moving until the song is one more, then you do every trip through the steps. over. your first movement, sprinkler. your partners’ and then add on.

August Get Moving Today! ACTIVITY CALENDAR Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Walk or run in a big Using rolled up socks, Draw a big circle using What are your favorite Hit a balloon high into Ask someone to pitch Play hide and seek with circle, after the first one put them on your tummy sidewalk chalk. Toss a animals? Can you move the sky and chase it as it you some soft balls as a friend or family jump into the sky. Jump as you crab walk them sock or a bean bag into like them and see if floats all over the place. you try to hit the balls member. up to five times. across the house. the circle. How far away someone can guess Hit it again before it with a soft bat. can you get and still toss what you are? touches the ground. into the circle?

Find a hill to run up and Get your feet wet and Practice your toss and Reach with your front Play catch with How far can you kick a Set up a track in your roll down. Go up in a make tracks on the catch skills. Can you foot as you push off of someone. Follow the ball? Kick it hard, chase yard. How many steps different way and come sidewalk. Try taking big clap before you catch? your back foot. Pretend ball with your eyes and it, run back and kick it does it take to run the down in a different way. steps and then small to leap over puddles. then move your hands to again. entire track? steps. meet the ball. Go on a color walk. Find Pretend to be a butterfly Make up a new game. How many different Make up a movement every color of the Take two minutes before Pretend to move like that is flying around your Give it a name and have ways can you move your pattern - try jump, jump, rainbow. Do five big going to bed tonight to different foods – melt yard from flower to fun playing it. body? How about shiver, wiggle, jump, jump jumps for every color. stretch and relax as a like a popsicle or pop flower. tumble, and waddle? wiggle. Your turn! family. like popcorn. Practice bouncing a ball. Practice your hopping Work on spelling your Can you bounce it really skills. Take off and land A day to stretch your Sweep the sidewalk or Using paper plates try to name (or other words) – high? Can you bounce on the same foot. How body in all different Make up a yoga pose for driveway for your family. see how far you can but use your body to really low? Can you many times can you hop shapes and directions. your favorite animals. Work hard and use make them fly. What is make each letter. bounce it so it travels in a row? Can you hop Try to hold each stretch Do each pose as you those muscles. the best way to toss it to behind you? with both feet? until you count to five. relax and breathe. make it go far? Use your fine motor Plan an afternoon of skills today – clean physical activity. Let Spread out a beach Play “Kick Golf”. Pick a Put a water hose on a Using ‘stuff’ from around Go back and find your some vegetables and everyone decide one towel, move around it, target, take turns kicking plastic tarp – have fun the house create a favorite activity and do it enjoy a treat. thing that they would like over it, beside it, on it, until you hit the target slipping, sliding and tunnel – have fun again. to do with the rest of the then under it. and then pick a new jumping in the puddles. moving through it in family. goal. different ways.

September Get Moving Today! ACTIVITY CALENDAR Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Make paper airplanes Shake your body! Take Spread wash cloths Staple two paper plates Pretend to be robots and Make a set of shape Find a starting spot and practice throwing turns leading a fun around the room and together to make a flying walk through your cards. Pick a shape, find outside/inside and them – step and follow dance move to your jump from one to saucer. Go outside, house, keeping your something that is that choose different places through toward the favorite music. another. throw it, run to it, and body stiff and straight. shape and run as fast as to go. Count how many target. throw it again you can to touch it. steps it takes to get to each spot. Which is the farthest? Which is the closest?

Roll up a bunch of Clean Up! Spread out a Make two sets of ABC Practice walking with Use the shape cards Stretch out on the floor Walk around the house sheets of newspaper. bunch of small items in a cards. Spread a few style today – walk from the 6th; put a and then curl, bounce, three times – first fast, Use plastic bottles as room. Crab walk to each letters out on the floor. happy, walk scared, number on each shape freeze, twist, stretch and second backwards, and targets. Work on item, put the item on Collect the same letters walk angry, walk shy. and spread the cards bend your entire body. third like your favorite overhand throwing skills. your tummy, and crab from the other pile. Hold Think of your own ways. out on the floor. Move to animal. walk the item to a new up a letter and identify a a shape, read the spot. way to move - gallop to number and jump over it the get the P or crawl to that many times. get the S. Using your ABC cards, Go for a walk and look Using your entire body, Collect 10 stuffed Again using the ABC Sit facing each other Point to something spread out a few letters. for things that begin with make up a handshake animals and put them in cards, make a trail and roll a ball back and outside, say the object’s This time use rolled up different letters of the with each person in your a line on one side of the throughout the house or forth. name, and move to it as socks to work on alphabet. family – try to really add room. How fast can you outside. Jump or hop or fast as you can. When underhand tossing to the a lot of movement. move one at a time to leap to each letter as you get there rest and correct letters. the other side of the you say its name. then find something room? else. “What am I?” Take turns Do three with me! Move to every room in Go for a color nature Roll up a bunch of Build an obstacle course I spy something red! moving like something Wiggle, reach, and your home and jump five walk. Can you find fall sheets of newspaper. outside – run, jump, Take turns saying, “I spy as the other person touch the floor. Touch times. Remember colors? Use plastic bottles as crawl, and climb. something ____” and copies and guesses your nose, lay on the jumping is two feet! targets. Work on then together run to that what you are. floor, jump really high. overhand throwing skills. object. You make some up. Practice skipping. Step- Practice your kicking Find a stick and pretend Get outside and practice Go on a walking nature Go back and do your hop-step-hop. skills. Can you kick far to be in a parade as you your running. Pump your scavenger hunt, looking Yell out a body part and favorite activity from this and near? move outside. arms forward and for signs of fall. see who can touch that month! backward. Feel your part to the floor the heart! fastest – without falling down.

October Get Moving Today! ACTIVITY CALENDAR Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Kick off the new month Fold a towel or Find a starting spot Create a movement Jumping obstacle Pretend to be airplanes. Feel your heart. Walk for by practicing your newspaper and put in on outside/inside and sequence – hop, twist, course: Line up pillows Start out on the floor, five minutes, feel your kicking skills. Kick – the floor. Pretend it is a choose different places reach – and then do it across the floor and try pushing yourself up and heart again. Is it beating chase – kick again. puddle that you are to go. Count how many together. Say the words to jump from one to down with your arms to faster? Why? going to leap over. Each steps it takes to get to as you do the motions. another without touching start your engine. Next time you leap over it each spot. Which is the the floor. stand up, with arms out make it a little bit bigger. farthest? as wings, fly all over the place. Clean up! Spread out a Use recycled Using a pool noodle Roll up a pair of socks. bunch of small items in a newspapers and crunch create a jumping Try to balance the socks room. Crab walk to each up pieces, making paper Using the paper balls Turn your favorite music challenge. Place the on different parts of your “At the Zoo”. Take turns item, put the item on balls. Practice throwing from yesterday practice on and make up a noodle on the floor and body as you move naming an animal. Try your tummy, crab walk the balls into a box. self tossing and sequence of dance jump over it. Next move throughout space. Try to moving around just as the item to a new spot. Throw from different catching. Can you clap moves. Share them with the noodle slightly off move around, over and that animal would. distances and angles. between catches? someone! the floor and jump over under things. it. Go for a color walk Rake piles of leaves & outside. As you walk jump into them! Outdoor dramatic play: Go on a rock hunt and Read nature-related Play I Spy! Go outside Pick up some sticks keep track of the Fly like birds – high and sort the rocks you find books and go outside to and take turns saying, “I around the yard, line different colors you see low and fast and slow. by size or color. look for wildlife, like spy something ____” them up and jump over and then when you Pretend to fly south for birds, bugs and and then together run to them. return home draw a the winter and return in squirrels. Nature is all that object. picture using those the spring! around – no matter colors. where you live! Pretend to be a cloud as Transportation Travels! Musical Freeze: Have Galloping Fun: Find Pathway locomotion your float around Turn on some music and Take turns naming a someone turn the music something around the challenge! Choose a outside. Change your make up some new different type of on and off. When it is on house that could be your start and finish. Choose shape as you move moves. Try to move transportation and then Get outside again! Go you must dance and horse (broom, hockey a way to move (walk, through space. high, low, big and small. pretend to move that on “an around” walk. move, but when it is shut stick, wrapping paper run, skip, robot etc.). way. Such as a train, Walk around your off you must balance tube). Go for a horse Choose a pathway – bike, car, etc. house, walk around a and freeze. ride as you walk, run, either straight, curvy or light pole, walk around a and gallop. zigzag. leaf on the ground… Run and Touch: Have Go back and do your someone identify a part favorite activity from this Do the Twist! Sit or Practice your ball rolling of your body and a Take a break and Connect to someone Stretch as big as you month! stand on a t-shirt and skills, by rolling a ball number – now, run and stretch, reach and bend else and try moving can. Curl up as small as twist away. into a box set on its side touch that many items as you take big breaths. together in different you can. Now explode or rolling a ball to knock using that body part (i.e. ways. How long can you back to being as big as over obstacles. touch eight things with stay connected? you can. your elbow).

Try skating on some Use your body to Play I spy. One person Get outside and go for a Can you try to move for paper plates. Put your Get a laundry basket pretend. Can you move Get outside and work on says “I spy walk. Look for different two minutes without feet on the plates and and practice throwing like spaghetti? How your kicking skills. Kick ______”. And when shapes. Can you find a stopping? What slide around the room, things into it – try tossing about applesauce? How the ball as far as you the other person sees it circle, a square, and a happens to your heart or put your hands on the far away and try tossing about a melting ice can, chase it, and kick it you both run to it. Next triangle? when you do this? plates and push them when you are really cube? Can you think of again. time try skipping or around the room. close. something? galloping. Indoor Zoo: Move like an Color Find and Move. Work on your catching Work on moving in Work on moving in Go to each space in animal through your Have someone name a skills. Use a soft ball or relationship to each relationship to each your home and practice home. Each time you How many parts of your color, and then your job rolled up socks. Toss it other. Move side by other. Move side by hopping on one foot and get to a new space body can you bend? is to move to something up and catch it. Keep side. Move front to back. side. Move front to back. then the other. Run to a change to a new animal. Give it a try! that is that color. Move your eye on it as it Move under then over. Move under then over. new space and hop in all different ways. travels through the air. again. Go on a shape walk. As Walk, jog, run – start out Turn on some music and Draw a shape on a Play a game of Can Practice your jumping Toss a t-shirt in the air, you walk. pump your by walking one lap try to keep moving for an piece of paper and then You? Can you spin on skills. Bend your knees, let it land on your head. arms and get that heart around your home. Now entire song. Check out try to put your body into your bottom? Can you push off the floor, and Toss it again, let it land beating. How many jog one lap and then what it does to the way that shape. Keep your jump to the sky? Your reach to the sky. How on your shoulder, your different shapes can you finally run one lap. you are breathing. body still as you hold the turn to create a high can you jump? How elbow, your tummy or find? Which one was harder? shape. movement to try! far can you jump? your foot.

Make a set of cards that Work on walking tall and Do some outdoor chores Work on those muscles Use the recycled paper Balance fun. Try putting What were your favorite have a number on each proud. Can you balance as a family. Reach, pull, in your hand, crush up balls and work on your four parts of your body November Activities? Do card. Put the cards in a a paper plate on your push and bend. recycled paper into tiny throwing skills. Step and on the ground and them again! bucket. Draw a card, head as you walk balls. Do it with your throw across the room. balancing. How about read the number, then around your home? right hand and your left Crab walk to the balls four other parts? Now try take that many steps hand. Keep these balls and throw them back. balancing on three parts together. for tomorrow. or even five parts.

Funding for this project was provided by the Office of Head Start, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services © SHAPE America – Society of Health and Physical Educators  www.shapeamerica.org 1900 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191  703.472.3400  Fax 703.476.9527  [email protected] December Get Moving Today! ACTIVITY CALENDAR Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Go for a walk. As you Movement Add On: Time to practice your walk practice other ways Using a balloon, practice Go on an ABC treasure Working together, create a Enjoy the day by going Turn on some relaxing, jumping skills. Practice to move, skipping, volleying with different hunt! Move throughout your movement sentence. One for a family walk. As you quiet music as you jumping far and high – galloping, sliding, and parts of your body. Can house finding items that person starts by doing one walk together take turns stretch your body in begin with each letter. movement, the next person bend your knees, reach leaping. you keep the balloon in When you get to an item do does a new movement, and sharing something that many different ways. for the sky, and land the air using your hand, a fun movement such as then do the two movements is special about your Between each stretch try softly. your thumb, or even donkey kicks, log rolls, or together. Keep adding new family. to relax and breath. your elbow? jumping jacks. movements. Time to roll. Clear out Work on your kicking Sit with your family and some space in your Roll up some socks and Practice your hopping Pretend to skate on Puzzle relay: Put puzzle skills. Kick a pair of take turns laughing. Try home and roll from one practice your throwing skills! Hop once on each paper plates. Add some pieces on one end of the rolled up socks from to make your laugh extra end to the other. First skills - turn, step, throw, foot, and then hop twice style and some tricks. room. Starting on the room to room. special. keep your body as follow-through. on each foot, etc. Keep other side, run, pick up a straight as you can, then on hopping and puzzle piece, run back try it with a bent body. counting. and start the puzzle. Create an obstacle with Sort toys as you exercise. Use your creativity to Work on your cutting chairs and blankets. Begin by figuring out how to make up a new game skills and make some Find items around your Practice moving under, Visit every space in your sort – by color, by size – that uses something Get outside and go for a paper snowflakes. home that make noise. over and around. home, but each time you then make piles on different from your kitchen. Give walk. As you walk breath ends of your home. As you Use these “instruments” get to a space do five find an object move quickly your game a funny in through your nose as you march through jumps as high as you to the correct pile, hop on name. and blow out through your home in a parade. can and then move to each foot five times, and your mouth. the next space. then move quickly back to get another toy. Use the snowflakes from Transportation fun: Scatter socks yesterday to make a trail Take a run. Work on Family relaxation Movement charades: Indoor snowball fight! Begin by identifying a throughout the room. through your home. Can moving in a straight line, activity. Turn the lights Act our something that Make a bunch of paper different form of Pretend to walk on a you move through your move your arms front off and you lay down on has to do with winter. balls and have fun transportation and then tight rope. When you get home without touching and back, and land the floor. Squeeze and Can anyone guess what throwing them far, near, pretend to do it. Such as to a sock, stand on one the floor and only lightly on your feet. then relax your muscles. you are? high, low. Pick them up riding your bike, driving foot, bend down and touching the Celebrate winning the Breathe. and do it again. a big bus or gliding on pick up the sock – keep snowflakes? race! your roller blades. your balance. Sit across from your Put mittens on your feet Get outside for a game Pretend to float all Can you build a tower Pretend to be animals parent/caregiver and and use them as skates What was your favorite of tag. If you have snow through your home like a out of pillows? Practice who play in the snow – practice rolling a ”snow to glide across the activity this month? Give on the ground, this will snowflake falling from your underhand walk like a polar bear, a ball” back and forth – kitchen floor. it another try! be extra good for your the sky - float high, float throwing skill as you try penguin, and a seal. count to 10 as you roll body. low, float fast, float slow. to knock over the tower. back and forth, and then move further apart and try it again.