Anyone got any ideas for physical activities for 2-4 year olds?

Question

Anyone got any ideas for physical activities for 2-4 year olds?

Answer 1

Treasure hunt in the garden

Tag

Musical Statues

Musical Chairs

Catch

Jump rope

roly polys

handstands

Cart wheels

Relay races

Answer 2

painting stones. Good fun for OUTSIDE in this warm weather. My wee one loves it.

Answer 3

Dance classes

Find a play group

Go to the park

Bike rides

Play follow the leader, but at that age, you may want one adult in the front & one in the back

Teach them how to play hop scotch

Tumble down hills

Teach them how to kick a soccor ball around

Take long walks - maybe to the store to get a treat

Tumbling class

Answer 4

Supervised swimming classes. They are good for developing gross coordination, muscle strenght and, afterall, they can be lifesavers in emergences. Also they are useful to detect and treat water fear, as well as too prevent it. Other than that you can try soccer (useful for getting coordination and condition, and not as difficult as other sports in rules or complex coordination as basketball, for example)

Answer 5

maybe this site will help! good luck!

http://www.pecentral.org/

Answer 6

I always take my child to the park, we go on Expedition walks, where we look for all kinds of insects. We also look for butterflies too. Just make ever day adventures. It will be good for you as well. Have fun. Life is full of fun stuff. Just getting out in the yard can be exercise

Answer 7

sports such as football maybe good

my cousin (Zak age 3 1/2) loves playing football since 2yrs old.

running - children love to run

Answer 8

An assault course: tunnel ,trampoline, balance beams and climbing frame.

Music and movement: Head Shoulder Knees Toes, Farmers in the Dell etc.

Singing actions songs: twinkle twinkle, 5 men in a flying saucers-the children can make things to hold, or stand up to fly etc.

Parachute games

Go for a walk around outside looking at the wiorld around them.

Cars and trikes! Set out a course to follow...can bring in road safety!

Or just a good old run around on the field with balls and hoops! Let them be spontanteous esp the birth to three kids!

Answer 9

Bend and Stretch

Balance Beam Walks

Simon Says

Hokey Pokey

Looby Loo

Tumbling on a Mat

I hope that I helped you out a little.

Answer 10

trampolines are great fun and bouncy castles

Answer 11

Running after bubbles. A kiddie karate class. Do like I do.... it will be good exercise for you too. Bend and walk and stretch and run. I used to walk a lot lot lot with my kids to get to places like the zoo or different play grounds in a large park. Now we moved to Florida so we walk to the Mall instead... just for the h**l of it, obviously you cannot buy anything because it is a pain to carry back home. We average a few miles. Also we used to walk around a lake and look for the laces where the ducks and swans have their nests... of course we did not disturb the area or even go in, but we would observe their secret world.

Answer 12

If you are happy and you know it, head shoulder knees and toes, here we go round the mulberry bush, the famrers in his den, on our way to london.  here we go (walking down the road)

bikes, climbing frames, balls, hop scotch, trampoline, balance beams, parachutes.

Answer 13

Hi, are you looking for activities for indoors or outdoors? When you say physical do you mean large gross motor skills (i.e. balance & co-ordination) or fine gross motor skills (i.e. hand to eye co-ordination, manipulative skills, etc). I have loads of information which i am willing to share you just need to be a little more specific. I have run pre schools & after school provisions for 20 years & teach in further education (childcare, playwork & education) so have plenty of info I could email to you.

Answer 14

If you have a children's playpark near you , they are great places for burning off energy and don't cost anything.

Answer 15

catch.it,pass a ball around,

Answer 16

trampoline - bouncing........that's all they seem to do around where i live.

Answer 17

If you need an indoor game that is physical, look at the cranium games on cranium.com.

here's one game that has kids jumping around

http://store.cranium.com/catalog/product...

Answer 18

try musical statues or traffic lights - red for stop, green for run around, speed bumps for jumping.

Answer 19

my daughter goes to gymnastics and loves it been in it for a yr now she is 4

Answer 20

-Tae Bo

-Leapfrog

-Dance

Answer 21

How about parachute games? My preschoolers love this:

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/...