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Share your gross motor activities for this looonnnng winter!

by Cheryl/NH

Feb 9, 2011

Hi all!

I posted this on the preschool board and wanted to ask for your advice here on the Childcare board as well. I only have a 1/2 day program and most of you have full day! You must REALLY be feeling the cabin fever with your kiddos! And therefore have, I'm sure, some very creative gross motor ideas!

Being cooollllddd outside, we-as a lot of you!, have not been able to get our kiddos outside.

We are fortunate in that we have a large room we can use for indoor play in inclement weather.

What we've been doing for indoor gross motor for our 1/2 hour time is:

Indoor playground (ride on bikes, ball, instruments, dancing, hopscotch mats)--a combination of all of these.

Parachute Play

Obstacle Courses

I listed the themes page of my website below so you can see some of the ideas we use for gross motor. Most of them are themed. However, we don't necessarily theme our indoor recess time everyday and are looking for...See More

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