PHYSICAL ACTIVITY |
1 |
Active breaks |
Metabolism enhancement |
Choose an exercise or a combination and do it non-stop |
2–3 min |
Every hour |
2 |
Clean-up race |
Agility and coordination |
Set a timer or put on a song to see who can put the room to rights fastest, or clean the kitchen |
Fastest! |
Once a day |
3 |
Play with pets |
Aerobic training |
Walk, run, jump, and play with balls with pets |
20 min |
Two or three times a day |
4 |
Balloon games |
Metabolism enhancement |
Play with a balloon in a different way |
30 min |
Four times a week |
5 |
Musical party |
Aerobic training |
Play music and dance or imitate “stars” on TV |
30 min |
Two times a week |
6 |
Animal races |
Coordination and resistance |
Move like an animal (frog, crayfish, penguin, snake, etc.) |
20 min |
Four times a week |
7 |
Obstacle course |
Agility and coordination |
Create an obstacle course with furniture in your apartment or outside. |
30 min |
Three times a week |
8 |
Tape game |
Coordination and resistance |
Create shapes on the floor with tape and give instruction to complete a path. |
30 min |
Two times a week |
9 |
Follow the leader |
Metabolism enhancement |
Focus on a sport, an activity, or an action. Imitate a person who has the leader role. Can also be played in video chat. |
30 min |
Two times a week |
10 |
Exergames |
Mixed |
Play active videogames |
An hour |
Three times a week |
1) Choose a few simple exercises: Walk on the spot, stretch arms and legs out to the side like a starfish while jumping, return arms to sides and legs to center on landing, circle arms, etc. |
2) Parents' satisfaction: Children could help parents in the housework as an active play activity. |
3) Play with pets: Walk or run in the house or outside, creating small paths. |
4) Balloon games: Alone or with parents, children could throw the balloon at a wall, bounce it over their head, dribble it on a chair or table, hit it up in the air but do not let it touch the ground, place it between their knees and waddle across the room without dropping it. |
5) Musical party: Sing and dance imitating a video on the internet. |
6) Animal races: Children walk, hop, or crawl in the styles of various animals. |
7) Obstacle course: Create an obstacle course with furniture in an apartment or outside. Some tools could be added: hula hoops to jump through, a line of tape to balance on, a table to crawl under, a blanket over two chairs to crab-walk through, etc. |
8) Tape game: Parents use tape to lay a variety of shapes, letters, and/or numbers on the floor and prepare instructions to follow, e.g., “bear crawl to the square,” “hop like a frog to the T,” or “run to the rectangle.” |
9) Follow the leader: Stand face to face, about a foot apart, and have the child attempt to copy all your movements, reach up and stretch to the sky, do 10 jumping jacks, act like a monkey, etc. |
10) Exergames: Use technology that uses interactive games to increase exercise behavior by requiring the players to physically interact with onscreen avatars through a variety of body movements while providing players the opportunity of being physically active and promoting their overall health. |