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SummeSumme 12 Weeks of Physical Activities for the Summer Months Infant Toddle Preschoole (0-12months) (1-2years) (3-5years) Hang Ten Rolling Right Along Animal Yoga Materials: Pillow or folded Materials: Beach towel, Materials: Mats blanket for infant to step or ball lay on (pretend surfboard), sturdy furniture item to Description: Animal yoga grasp for balance Description: Have toddlers participate in different rolling poses to go with a fun activities on a towel or grass. story. Print or access yoga Description: Have the Log roll: hands over head, feet story in resource. infant on their tummy first, together, and roll. Ball roll: Week or if able have them stand hands over head, hands Example: "I hear a 1 up on a pillow or folded around ball, and roll. Torpedo Flamingo fluting in my ear. blanket to throw off their roll: hands close at sides of Flamingo, Flamingo what balance. Pretend they are body and roll. Windmill roll: do you hear?" (Children do surfing . Have furniture one arm above head, one arm a tree pose like a flamingo) nearby if they need more at side, and roll. Downhill roll: help for balance. Have them roll down a hill or incline. Resource: try to move from their Pretend to be a rolly polly. stomach to their feet. https:// Have them think of different www.kidsyogastories.co variations. m/animal-yoga-poses- Resource: for-toddlers/ https://www.care.co Resource: B-47 m/c/stories/4582/ac https://www.nemours.org/c tivities-to-get-your- ontent/dam/nemours/wwwv baby-crawling- 2/filebox/service/healthy- standin/ living/growuphealthy/infant toddlertoolkit.pdf Toddle Preschoole Infant (1-2years) (3-5years) (0-12months) Wacky Walking Rain Storm Reaching Beyond Grasp Materials: Mud, sand, Materials: None Materials: Small smooth rocks, tubs of ball or squeaky water, wet foam pads, Description: Start by toy tape for line on the floor tapping fingers on the floor, then move to Description: Lay on the floor Description: Have the clapping on thighs, with the infant. Hold the toddlers walk barefoot over clapping hands, stomping object above their shoulders, the mud, sand, smooth rocks, feet, etc. Create noises close enough for the infant to tubs of water, and wet foam like thunder and blowing swipe at it. Adapt and extend pads. Then have them walk on wind. Put both hands up Week when they master skills or a straight line like a balance high and start to sway grow older. For example, ask, beam on the taped line. Next decreasing speed as the 2 "Can you reach this?" and have them walk sideways on stormy wind dies down. have the infant reach for the the line. Then have them walk The big sun comes up, object. Move the ball across like an ostrich (bend forward both arms make a big the mid line and in other at the waist, grasp ankles, and round circle. Swing both directions for them to reach. walk forward while keeping arms up and over to make knees stiff and stretching neck a rainbow. Resource: A-54 in and out). https://www.nemours. org/content/dam/nem Resource: B-19 Resource: ours/wwwv2/filebox/s https://www.nemours.org/c Danielle O. ervice/healthy- ontent/dam/nemours/www Preschool living/growuphealthy/i v2/filebox/service/healthy- Valentine, NE nfanttoddlertoolkit.pdf living/growuphealthy/infan ttoddlertoolkit.pdf Infant Toddle Preschoole (0-12months) (1-2years) (3-5years) Moving to Music Human See-Saw Round up the Sheep Materials: Music Materials: None Materials: White with various balloons, black rhythms and Description: Sit on the floor sharpie, large play patterns with your legs apart and sit pen or crib the child between your legs Description: Draw a facing you with their legs Description: Dance sheep face on white straight out. Pretend to be a balloons and set with the infant in human see-saw. Hold the different motions. them free in the yard. child's hands, lean forward, Have the children run Week Bounce, sway, and and encourage them to lean rock the infant. around to catch all 3 back as far as they can. Pull the balloon sheep Choose fun summer them gently back up to a songs! Adapt to age and get them all back sitting position. Repeat this in the pen. and abilities (being fast and slow. Allow them to held, sitting, or strengthen their core by standing). having them try to sit up Resource: without you pulling them up http://www.mrsplemons Resource: A-109 with much force. kindergarten.com/2017 https://www.nemours.o /05/tot-school- rg/content/dam/nemou farm.html rs/wwwv2/filebox/servi Resource: ce/healthy- None living/growuphealthy/in fanttoddlertoolkit.pdf Infant Toddle Preschoole (0-12months) (1-2years) (3-5years) Tummy Time Outside Ball at the Wall Moana Yoga Story Materials: Materials: Balls, Materials: Screen Blanket for tall wall or projector outside Description: Start close to a wall. Invite Description: 30 Description: Lay a the toddlers to minute video of blanket down and throw balls at the yoga poses to the Week have tummy time wall. Experiment by story of Moana! outside. Introduce throwing further Access video in 4 grass, leaves, and away from the wall. resource. sand in their hands. Video example in resource. Resource: Resource: Resource: https://www.youtu https://pathways. org/ https:// be.com/watch? topics-of-development/ www.nhsa.org/our- v=5y3gCrL_XIM tummy-time/ work/initiative/go- smart Infant Toddle Preschoole (0-12months) (1-2years) (3-5years) Bubble Bubble Working at the Car Seaweed Tag Wash Materials: Materials: Objects to mark a Bottle of Materials: Buckets few spots on the ground, cones bubbles with baby soap and or objects to mark off an area water, sponges, Description: Mark off an area Description: Blow plastic outdoor toys to clean that will serve as the "ocean." bubbles for the Explain that seaweed grows on infant to watch. Be the ocean floor. They sway but Week sure to blow the Description: Get can't swim. Seaweed are always bubbles far enough buckets with soap stuck to the ocean floor. Start 5 away so they don't and water. Wash out with having 1 or 2 children pop in the infant's the tricycles or as seaweed, and tell them to face. Encourage other outdoor always have one foot stuck to them to reach for plastic toys with their spot on the floor. them. sponges. Have the other children line up at the edge of the ocean. When Resource: you say "go," the kids crawl, like Resource: a school of fish swimming, to https:// https:// the other side. If they get www.growinghands www.nhsa.or tagged, they are now seaweed. g/our-work/ onkids.com/ practical-life- initiative/go- Resource: smart washing-activities- for-toddlers.html None Infant Toddle Preschoole (0-12months) (1-2years) (3-5years) Beach Ball Bonanza Sponge Fish Target Toss Pretend to be Summer Things Materials: Inflatable Materials: Sponges cut beach ball(s) (12" into fish shapes, sidewalk Materials: None and/or mini 5") chalk, water bucket Description: Lay baby Description: Drop the Description: Explode across the top of the fish shaped sponges into like fireworks, swim like ball on their stomach. a water bucket. Then a fish, fly in the sky like a Gently roll them draw a target with chalk kite, melt like a popsicle, Week around on the ball. on the sidewalk. Have twist and wind like Hold them sitting on the toddlers try to a water slide, chomp like 6 the ball and bounce toss the wet fish a shark, be the summer them. Hold their hands sponges to hit the center breeze in the trees, grow and beat the ball like a of the target. expand and pop like a drum. Help them hit balloon, wave like water, the ball into the air. etc. Resource: http://www.mrsplemons Resource: kindergarten.com/2017 Resource: http://www.kids-sports- /05/tot-school- Danielle O. activities.com/infant- ocean.html Preschool activities.html Valentine, NE Infant Toddle Preschoole (0-12months) (1-2years) (3-5years) Water Play Hot Hoops The Shark Bit My Cup Materials: Baby pool, water, fun Materials: Colored Materials: toys hoops or hula hoops, Buckets, cups with music small holes in the Description: Have bottom, water infants play with Description: Hoops are laid cups and plastic out in a clear space. Children Description: Take fill- containers in a baby jump in a circle around the the-bucket water relay Week pool. Show them hoops while music plays. to the next level by how to scoop up When the music stops, drilling holes in the relay 7 water and dump it. children must find a hoop to cups. Fill up the cups, jump into. Once all children have the kids hold the Resource: https:// have found a hoop, the leader cups on their heads full www.health.harvard .edu calls out the 'hot' color. "Red of water, and they have /blog/6-reasons- hoops are hot hoops!" to fill the bucket they children-need-to-play- Children who are in the hot have to run to. They outside-201805221388 colored hoop must jump to a have to run back to fill 0 different hoop to share with their cup back up. another child. Repeat. !"#$%&'"( https:// Resource: health.act.gov.au/about- http://www.toddlerappro our-health-system/ ved.com/2012/08/shark- healthy-living/kids-play- and-water-themed- active-play/active-play/ fun.html active-play-kids Infant Toddle Preschoole (0-12months) (1-2years) (3-5years) This Little Farmer Went Car Races to the Market Silly Shake Me! Materials: Medium Materials: None cardboard boxes with Materials: None straps (string, fabric, etc.), Description: Gather the drawing materials to toddlers in a group.