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12 Weeks of Physical Activities for the Summer Months

Infant Toddle Preschoole (0-12
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years) (3-5
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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 (1-2
years) (3-5
years) (0-12
months) 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 (0-12
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years) (3-5
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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 (0-12
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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 (0-12
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years) (3-5
years)

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 (0-12
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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 (0-12
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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.

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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. Explain decorate boxes, markers that when you call out a Description: Play this toe to set out a course (race body part, they should shake track) wiggling game chanting a that body part. Give each new rhyme. Wiggle each child a turn to name a of the child's toes as you different body part for Description: Each child recite each line. Repeat everyone to shake. Use a gets a box car to decorate. Week the rhyme for each foot variety of parts such as toes, After decorating the and then tickle each foot. nose, eyes, hands, ears, boxes, encourage children 8 Rhyme and description knees, tummies, mouth, to run around the race video in resource. tongue, shoulders, etc. Ask track in their car making them to move them fast, and noises. Change the course ask to move them slow. Play according to what the Resource: https:// children find easy or hard. www.nhsa.org/ our- some fun summer music when shaking! work/initiative/go- Resource: https:// smart Resource: www.pinterest.com /pin/ https:// 135600638750231167/ www.nhsa.org/o ur- work/initiative/go- smart

Infant Toddle Preschoole (0-12
months) (1-2
years) (3-5
years)

Cruisin' Fruit Salad Tunnel Ball Materials: Stable Materials: One line marked at Materials: Medium objects, a blanket, or one end, beanbags (represent sized balls a play area fruit), bucket (fruit salad bowl) at the other end Description: Have the Description: Give children face away from infant chances to Description: Ask the toddlers their partner with legs in a crawl from one spot to to line up along the line, facing wide stance. Have them another. Be outside the bucket. Hand each toddler pass the ball back and and provide stable a beanbag and explain that forth to their partner objects such as chairs their beanbag is a fruit. When through their legs. Then or equipment. Let the leader calls out a fruit, for have the children line up in them crawl in the example 'apples', all the a group of no more than 8 Week grass and move from children run up to the fruit with legs in a wide stance. 9 person to person or salad bowl, drop their Ball starts with the first object to object. beanbag, run around the bowl child and they roll it to mix up the fruit salad, and through their legs, run back to the starting line. If encourage children to Resource: older, assign specific types of 'help' the ball along. https:// fruit to each child. www.nhsa.org/our- Resource: https:// work/initiative/go- health.act.gov.au/ab out- smart Resource: https:// our-health-system/ health.act.gov.au/ab out- healthy-living/kids-play- our-health-system/ active-play/active-play/ healthy-living/kids-play- active-play-kids active-play/active-play/ active-play-kids Infant Toddle Preschoole (0-12
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Water Blob Fun Put Out the Fires! Airplanes Materials: Heavy duty large pieces of plastic, duct tape, Materials: Chalk, spray Materials: Open space water, fun things to put bottles with water or a hose inside the blob (glitter or Description: Pretend to food coloring) be airplanes. Start out Description: Duct tape two Description: Draw on the floor, pushing heavy duty large pieces of fires on the ground themselves up and Week plastic together, leaving a small with sidewalk chalk. down with their arms to opening in one corner as the fill Give the toddlers start their engines. 10 hole. Fill the homemade water spray bottles or a Next stand up, with blob with water and glitter or hose so they can run arms out as wings, fly all food coloring (optional). Seal from fire to fire to put over the place. the fill hole. Let the children them out. explore moving on the blob. Resource: See example for instructions. Resource: http://healthysd.gov/wp- http://www.mrsplemon content/uploads/2014/1 2/activity-calendar.pdf Resource: skindergarten.com/201 Lynn V. 7/05/tot-school- Childcare Center community.html Columbus, NE Example: https:// www.pinterest.co m/pin/ 307652218285128977/

Infant Toddle Preschoole (0-12
months) (1-2
years) (3-5
years)

Grocery Shopping Pop Goes the Weasel Summer Vacation Suitcase Relay

Materials: Plastic Materials: None Materials: Have two fruit and toys, a mini suitcases with the same shopping cart or Description: Guide the vacation items in each little stroller toddlers to stand in a circle such as sunscreen, a and dance around as they sing book, sunglasses, Description: Creative this song. When they hear flipflops Week way to encourage infants 'pop' they should jump in the Description: to walk. Pretend to go on air. "All around the mulberry 11 a shopping trip. Place Children run down to bush, The monkey chased the the suitcase, pick up plastic toys such as fruit weasel; The monkey thought and other toys to shop for an item and run back. 'twas all in good fun. POP First team to pick all around the room. Give goes the weasel." Sing again them a little shopping of their items out of and insert this as the 3rd line the suitcase wins. cart or stroller, and help creating an action for the kids them find and put toys to do. " The monkey stopped into the cart. to______" ex: scratch his nose. Resource: Video example in resource. Jill G. Resource: Childcare Center https://www.care.co South Omaha, NE m/c/stories/4582/ac Resource: tivities-to-get-your- https://www.nh sa.org/ baby-crawling- our-work/initiative/ standin/ go-smart Infant Toddle Preschoole (0-12
months) (1-2
years) (3-5
years) Bouncing Tummy Time We are Painters Sit to Stand Materials: None Materials: Paint Materials: None brushes (big), Description: Caregiver sits tubs full of water Description: Ask children to stand against a supportive surface and sit down without using their with legs extended. Place Description: Take the hands. Can they get back up the infant on their belly without using hands? Ask them to across your legs. Their children outdoors, and tell them they are kneel and move to a sitting position hands and knees should without using their hands. Can they touch the floor. While in this painters. Have the kids paint the get back up without using hands? positon, gently bounce the Ask them to lie down without using infant. Try lifting one of your sidewalk or the side of a building with their hands. Can they get to a Week legs up and down, rocking seated position without their the infant back and forth. water and brushes. 12 Video example in hands? When they master this, resource. have them lie down and count Resource: down from five to see if they can sit https://www.shapeamer up and stand up before time is up. ica.org/uploads/pdfs/20 Resource: Video example in resource. 17/downloads/activities https:// /Infant-Lets-Get- happyhooligans.ca/ Resource: Moving.pdf painting-water-activity- https://www.nh sa.org/our- for-kids/ work/initiative/go-smart Book Suggestions Song Suggestions Fun books to read and to get kids moving! Kid Friendly songs to add to any fun activity! Check wtih your local library to see if they either *Active Children's Songs- Watch the video own or can access these books for free. to see actions you can add to the song

"Barnyard Dance" by Sandra Boynton "Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)" by Shakira "The Busy Body Book" by Lizzy Rockwell "Sail Into the Sun" by Gentlemen Hall "You Are a Lion! And Other Fun Yoga Poses" "Walking On Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves by Taeeun Yoo "Three Little Birds" by Sean Paul and Ziggy Marley "A Stick Is an Excellent Thing" by Marilyn (Shark Tale) Singer "Car Wash" by Christina Aguilera ft. Missy Elliott "The Animal Boogie" by Debbie Harter (Shark Tale) (includes singalong CD) "In summer" by Olaf, FROZEN "Stretch" by Doreen Cronin *"I Can Do It" plus 15 more action songs by Patty "Shake My Sillies Out" by Raffi Songs to Read Shukla *"Swimming Song" by The Learning Station "Hop, Hop, Jump!" by Lauren Thompson *"Jamaican Dance" by The Learning Station "Zoom" by Diane Adams *"Icky Sticky Bubble Gum" by The Learning "Flora the Flamingo" by Molly Idle Station "Gallop!" by Rufus Butler Seder *"We're Going on a Lion Hunt" by The Kiboomers

Questions or Comments? Please contact Dr. Danae Dinkel at [email protected] 402.554.3259