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Movin' and Groovin'

Indoor Activities to Keep Children Active

By Donna Smith

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. Put on a recording of a march or break out the pots and pans.
  • Play Follow the Leader. This game offers a great opportunity for toddlers to practice various motor skills. Mom or Dad can lead the way around the house, performing as many different locomotor (traveling) skills as they know their child can replicate. Parents can also vary their movements by changing direction, level, pathway, speed, force and body shape. Make sure to occasionally stop and stretch, bend, twist or shake.
  • Play In and Out. Place one plastic hoop per child on the floor. Invite the child to jump in and out of the hoop, all the way around.
  • Move through an obstacle course. There's nothing like an obstacle course to provide practice with any number of skills, including crawling, creeping, walking and jumping. And an obstacle course offers children valuable experience with prepositions such as "over," "under," "around" and "through." Parents can set up a course using large empty boxes to move through, chairs or other pieces of furniture big enough to move under, jump ropes to move over or small items to move around.
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