Infants
Infants
Bubbles
Baby Mountain Climber
Equipment:
Fundamental Movement Skills:
Equipment:
Fundamental Movement Skills:
Bubbles
Open Space
Stability
Pulling
Falling
Grasping
Crawling
Pillows (optional )
Open Space
Stability
Rolling
Crawling
Stretching
How to play:
1. Establish a play space
2. Ensure the bubbles are non-toxic and away from the child’s face
3. Blow the bubbles in different directions around the child
4. Encourage the child to reach, grasp, stretch, and crawl toward the bubbles
Talk about
How is this activity incorporating physical literacy?
What other positive movement environments could this activity be offered?
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How to play:
1. Establish a play space
2. Lay the child on their back
3. To the song “The Grand ole Duke of York” alternate the child’s arms and legs
4. Use the lyrics in the song as guidance
Challenge:
1. Include pillows to the play space
2. Encourage the child to crawl up the pillow mountain
3. Perhaps, placing a toy or coaxing with song to entice the child to crawl up the
mountain
Song:
Oh, the grand old Duke of York,
He had ten thousand men,
He marched them up to the top of
Everyone stands up
The hill and he marched
Them down again.
Everyone sits down
And when they were up they were up.
Everyone stands up
And when they were down they were down.
Everyone sits down
And when they were only half way up,
They were neither up nor down.
Everyone half-way up
Talk about
How does this activity support early brain development?
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Infants
Toddlers
Confident Curious Crawling
Equipment:
Fundamental Movement Skills:
Open Space
Bubble wrap
String
Various sensory objects
(i.e feathers, balloons, socks, ect)
Bottom of a table or box
Stability
Pulling
Grasping
Crawling
Reaching
How to play:
1. Establish a play space
2. Tape bubble wrap to the floor
3. Place table or box over the bubble wrap
4. Hang various sensory objects from the box or table
5. Encourage the child to crawl through the space and explore
Talk about
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How can you, as an ECE, actively participate in the activity with the infant?
What are other opportunities can you provide to ensure the infants physical
literacy exploration?
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Squirrel Tails
Equipment:
Fundamental Movement Skills:
Open Space
Socks or other materials for play tails
Masking tape
Stability
Crawling
Start and Stop
Jumping
Hopping
Skipping
Walking
How to play:
1. Establish a play space
2. Tuck socks or material in the child’s back pocket
3. Place a line of tape on the ground
4. Encourage the children to walk on the line like a squirrel balancing on a tree top
5. Try walking: forwards, backwards, slow, fast, crouching low, and zig-zag
* A suggested adaptation would be to experiment with multiple animals
Talk about
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What kinds of different activities could you consider planning if you took
the children’s interests into account?
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Toddlers
Toddlers
Sing-a-long Stretching
Hopping Maze
Equipment:
Fundamental Movement Skills:
Equipment:
Fundamental Movement Skills:
Open Space
Stability
Stretching
Start and Stop
Hopping
Jumping
Open Space
Small Cones
Ropes
Hoops
Bubble Wrap
Stability
Crawling
Start and Stop
Jumping
Hopping
Skipping
How to play:
1. Establish a play space
2. To the song “Here we go around the mulberry bush” perform different stretching
movements
3. Imitate the movements for the children to follow
Talk about
Song:
This is the way we touch our toes,
Touch our toes, touch or toes,
This is the way we touch our toes,
early in the morning
This is the way we swing our arms,
Swing our arms, swing our arms,
This is the way we swing our arms,
early in the morning
This is the way we jump up and down,
Jump up and down, jump up and down.
This is the way we jump up and down,
early in the morning
This is the way we climb up a mountain,
Climb up a mountain, climb up a mountain.
This is the way we climb up a mountain,
early in the morning
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How to play:
1. Establish a play space
2. Provide different materials to create a “hopping maze”
3. The children take turn hopping, crawling, jumping, skipping, through the maze
How can you build upon or extend the child’s skills that may challenge them?
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What materials could you add inside the play space to further promote physical literacy?
What materials could you add to the outdoor play space to further promote
physical literacy?
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Preschoolers
Preschoolers
Pizza Stretching
Hot Potato/Cold Potato
Equipment:
Fundamental Movement Skills:
Equipment:
Fundamental Movement Skills:
Open Space
Stability
Stretching
Reaching
Grasping
Open Space
Small ball /bean bag
Stability
Receive
Handle
Direct
Control
Catching
How to play:
1. Establish a play space
2. Children sit on the floor with their legs positioned in a pizza shape (triangle/V)
3. Get the children to turn their upper bodies to the left and right side for the ingredients of the pizza
4. Spread the ingredients along the pizza by slowly stretching toward one foot and
across the floor to the other foot
5. Pat and roll the pizza by stretching forward and back in
Reach to the sky and turn on the oven for baking
Talk about
How to play:
1. Establish a play space
2. Children will sit or stand in a circle passing the ball or beanbag around
3. When the leader call outs “hot potato” the child holding the ball/beanbag will
toss it to another child across the circle
4. The game continues when the leader calls out “cold potato”. The children
continue to pass the ball/bean bag around the circle
5. Repeat
Talk about
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What are some barriers you face when planning physical activities?
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Ball/bean bag
What are ways in which you can successfully include physical literacy to
everyday planning?
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Preschoolers
Video Camera Game
Equipment:
Fundamental Movement Skills:
Open Space
Stability
Walking
Running
Start and Stop
Jumping
Skipping
How to play:
1. Establish a play space
2. Leader pretends to hold a video camera
3. Leader explains to the children that they will perform the actions of the video
camera depending on what word the leader calls out
4. Leader should demonstrate each action before the activity starts
5. When the music starts the leader will call out the action, children perform
action until the leader calls out a different action
Actions:
Play – skip around
Rewind – walk backwards
Fast Forward – run around
Stop – freeze on the stop
Pause – jump up and down
Slow motion – very slow, giant steps
Delete – lay on the ground
Talk about
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What is your physical literacy plan?
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