Don’t let grey days and freezing temperatures stop your kids moving and shaking. Use these ideas from our Play Academy link ups for action games to have fun and keep your kids fit and active all winter long.
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Welcome to the Carnival of Get Active! PlayThis week’s Play Academy link-up is all about Active Play. Please share an idea for any kind of active play – a new post or one from your archive. Running, jumping, dancing, hiking, yoga, climbing, inside or outside – what active play do your kids enjoy? Help us build a fantastic store of active play ideas we can use whenever we need a new idea. Read more »
I loved Jeanne’s comment saying the title of yesterday’s post sounded like a recipe, so continuing with that idea we today we have ‘take one child, add a dash of ribbons and swirl together with music.’ Children always have the best play ideas, don’t they? These pictures show B enjoying dancing with the streamers she made after discovering a forgotten bag of ribbons. She simply tied a one to the end of a stick and was ready to go. Both my girls love dancing but I’ve resisted sending them to an organised dance class for now, instead letting them explore their own dance style. Create your own dance studio Read more »Sponsored post You don’t often hear me recommending more screen time for children but we’ve been having fun this week with the Champion of the Playground site from Robinsons Fruit Shoot. Fruit Shoot.com lets you get active by playing a variety of skills based games and watching skills based videos, picking up tips so you can become the . . . → Read More: Could you be the Champion of the Playground? Five fabulous ideas for a feet theme. 1. Set up a shoe shop: gather together as many different types of shoes as you can: lace-ups, high heels, flippers, wellies, ballet shoes, walking boots, football boots, slippers. Talk about when you would wear all these different types of footwear – what’s special about them? Add in . . . → Read More: Five fabulous ideas for feet We love parachute games! They are great for some large scale play with a group of children and are wonderful for promoting team work and listening skills, as everyone needs to work together to follow instructions and listen to cues to make the games work. You can play parachute games inside or out, with . . . → Read More: Parachute games  |
   
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