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Get outside and really get the kids moving with fun gross motor skills activities and ideas that are perfect for days when the when a flit party just isn’t wearing it!
My boys move constantly and are full of a lot of energy. But, for some reason, our hands-on fun has taken a turn to mostly fine motor activities lately.
I’ve been feeling the need to be outdoors and really move, whether it’s crawling, skipping, hopping, running or whatever gets their energy out!
40 Gross Motor Activities to Get Your Kids Moving!
Gross motor activities.
I’ve unchangingly been a huge fan of ways to get the kids to move! Working on big movements and major large muscles with gross motor specific activities is the perfect way to really move and learn.
Gross motor activities are some of my favorites because:
- It really wears them out! Number one reason by far!
- It’s good for their physical minutiae to learn to move in new ways and build muscles, coordination and what not and so on… you know… all the technical learning stuff that they’re doing. I don’t know all the reasons and benefits of using their gross motor skills, but I just know it’s good to do.
Read increasingly well-nigh the benefits of moving at the Moving Smart Blog. I like the information about growing your child’s smart-ass with movement.
In the end, I know working their big muscles helps them work on the little muscles, which in turn help their fine motor skills to prepare them for important stuff like using a scissors and writing!
So to inspire myself, and others, to get the kids moving, I’ve selected a large handful of activities that will help us get them moving and work on those gross motor skills that are really much needed.
Find increasingly ways to move together on HOAWG’s Get the Kids Moving board on Pinterest.
How do you promote gross motor skills?
Working on gross motor skills is so easy compared to other minutiae areas. Kids often really like to move. All we need to do is provide the opportunity and space.
- Make things bigger. Instead of worksheets, make things bigger, make them move from room to room, or to wordplay a question. Or make them lay on the floor to do it, or stand up and pin the paper to the wall.
- Take things outside. Giving them zaftig room to explore and move is key.
- Mix gross motor activities into other types of activities. When they’re doing an art project, can you make it worthier or have them stand in a variegated way? Or if you’re working on spelling words and writing, what well-nigh using sidewalk chalk and drawing the reports as big as they can? This all works on those larger muscles just be making it big.
Make it simple. Think when to your own childhood. What did you enjoy doing? Here are some ideas to get you thinking.
- Hopscotch
- Leap frog
- Crab walks or other unprepossessing walks
- Draw a path with sidewalk chalk on the driveway and momentum on it with a scooter
- Red Light, Green Light
- Go to the park and use the playground equipment! A swing provides for unconfined opportunity to work on coordination.
- Just go for a walk or stroll
- Try yoga (turn on YouTube and do a quick search for Kids Yoga)
- Hula hoop
- We love painter’s tape to get moving, trammels out our full list of ideas here.
Super Simple Ways to Gets Kids Moving!
These moving activities are usually perfect for an older toddler or preschooler. They’re hitting the developmental milestones to be worldly-wise to kick, jump, skip and can understand vital instructions.
But kids this age tend to not have the concentration to sit still and unquestionably pay sustentation for long (so just alimony that in mind).
Find increasingly ideas in our 40 Big Fun Art Projects for Kids post!
Sometimes, subtracting a tomfool material – like newspaper, pillows and blankets, laundry baskets, or wafer-thin boxes – makes gross motor play uneaten fun!
Get the kids moving with these creative ideas.
Add a learning twist with our 10 Active Worriedness Ideas to Learn the Alphabet!
Add an uneaten element of fun with a friendly challenge.
Create an obstacle undertow or scavenger venery that invites them to get move in variegated ways.
Also trammels out our 30 Scavenger Venery Ideas for Kids To Do at Any Age!
Sometimes, sticking to the classics is a unconfined way to connect with your kids. Which kind of gross motor game did you enjoy as a child? Moving can be super simple, don’t overthink it!
I know we’ve discovered a ton of tomfool and creative gross motor skills activities that will really get my kids moving! We can’t wait to get outside and play together!
How have you gotten the kids moving with a gross motor worriedness lately?
Share your favorites with us!
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