DANCE!
1. Parents: Teach your child a dance from your
past
2. Kids: Teach your parents a cool new dance
3. Move to the music pretending to be an animal
on the paper plate
4. Play “Follow the Leader”
5. Play “Musical Freeze” (choose a leader who
says freeze and everyone needs to freeze in a
certain position)
6. Interpretive Dance (dance however the music
makes you feel)
WACKY WALKING
1. Walk together as a family around the perimeter
of the room
2. Jog-Walk-Jog-Walk: when you get to each
corner, change your speed
3. Color Walk: Walk to a color in the room
4. Walk like an animal: use your imagination and
pretend you are different types of animals-how
does each move differently
5. Fitness Walk: When you get to each polyspot,
do the exercise on the spot
SOCK BALL TENNIS
1. Hit the ball over the net and play a game
of tennis
2. See how many times you can keep the
ball in the air by hitting it to yourself
3. See how many times you can keep the
ball in the air by hitting it to a partner
4. See how many times you can hit a target
on the wall
SODA POP BOWLING
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Roll with your dominant hand
Roll with your non-dominant hand
Do a 3-step bowling approach
Add or multiply numbers together when
keeping score.
5. Play “Builders and Bulldozers”: One person is
the builder and sets up the pins, another
person is the bulldozer and knocks them down.
Play for a designated amount of time and see
who wins!
BALLOON VOLLEYBALL
1. Hit the ball over the net and play a game of
volleyball with a partner or team
2. See how many times you can keep the balloon
in the air by hitting it to yourself
3. See how many times you can keep the balloon
in the air by hitting it to a partner
4. See how many different body parts you can hit
the balloon with
5. Play follow the leader and hit the balloon with
the same body part that the leader did
MILK JUG SCOOPS
1. Play catch
2. Keep count of how many catches you
make as a team
3. Stand apart from one another and play
catch. Take a step backwards each time
you make a successful catch. Take a
step forwards each time you miss.
4. See how many times you can toss it and
catch it yourself. Each time you are
successful, throw it a little higher in the
air.
PAPER PLATE SPORTS
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Use paper plates or your socks on the
kitchen or hardwood floor!
Ice Skating (twirls, forward skate,
backward skate, create a routine to music)
Cross Country Skiing
Hockey
Slalom Skiing
PLAYGROUND GAMES
• Go to the playground and encourage kids
to slide, swing, and use upper body
strength!
• Traditional games like hopscotch, four
square, jump rope
STEP AEROBICS
• How many different types of steps do you
know? (A step, crossover step, basic step,
etc.)
• How many times can you do the basic
step in a minute?
• Can you create your own routine?
• Play “Follow the Leader”
PUSH-UPS WITH PINACHE
• Do push-ups, or other muscular strength
or flexibility activities, during the
commercials of a TV Show
• How many different types of push-ups can
you do?
NOODLE GOLF
• Create your own backyard miniature golf
game
• Create a golf course throughout your
house
• Create a neighborhood golf course with
each house becomes a different “hole”
• Use cardboard boxes or buckets as the
hole.