Exercise tips for at home

• Walk along a little obstacle course drawn with pavement chalk. It’s great fun, of course, if you’re allowed to draw your own obstacle course
• Balance along a line drawn with pavement chalk or balance on a piece of string. It can be a straight line, but a winding path is fun too
• Step from beer mat to beer mat, or draw shapes with pavement chalk
• Draw a hopscotch court (with pavement chalk)
• Crawl through empty boxes (playing in a big box is fun anyway – let your imagination run wild and pretend you’re driving a car)
• Crawl under the table (you can create a cool den by draping a rug or duvet cover over the table)
• Move swimming rings (wings) with your foot

• Jump off a kerb or the bottom step of a staircase
• Jump over a piece of string, a line drawn in chalk on the pavement or a branch in the woods
• Jump in and out of a hoop or a bicycle tyre
• Jumping on the trampoline in the garden

• Bouncing a balloon or beach ball (bouncing means keeping it in the air with your hands)
• Keeping a balloon in the air with a rolled-up newspaper
• Throwing a balloon or beach ball up in the air and catching it again
• Make a sock ball (two socks folded together) and try to throw it into the laundry basket. You can also do this with a wad of newspaper
• Roll a ball back and forth whilst sitting opposite each other with legs apart
• Roll a ball through the ‘gate’ (someone sitting with legs apart)
• Roll a ball against empty bottles
• Throw a ball into a bucket

• Colours
• Stacking blocks – can you build a tall tower? Taller than Mum or Dad?
• Placing clothes pegs on a beer mat or hanging them on a string
• Rolling over – can you roll across the floor like a sausage?

Going to a playground with Mum or Dad is always fun and offers lots of possibilities

• Swinging on the swing
• Climbing and scrambling, for example on a ladder
• Sliding down the slide at a playground
• Playing on the seesaw with Mum or Dad