Entertain kids at home with a super fun Halloween activity that will also be good for exercising their bodies. Our gross motor games for preschoolers will help stimulate children's legs and hand movements. Let them collect spiders! Check out the step-by-step instructions.
When we talk about gross motor skills, we talk about things like standing up, sitting, running, jumping, and even coordinate eye-hand movements to catch a ball. It is important to develop these skills to use them in our daily life. We will need them to get dressed, for example.
Sometimes we don't care about gross motor skills development, which is an essential part of our lives.
There are many ways to know if a child has gross motor skills problems, as a delay in the ability to get sit, crawl, run, jump, always fall over when doing physical activities, poor coordination, and insecurity.
At home, we should provide children with resources that will help them with this process. Parents must be pending on their development and have to encourage them to make them feel confident when doing some of these activities.
THEME: GROSS MOTOR GAMES FOR PRESCHOOLERS
HOW DO WE DO THIS ACTIVITY?
Topic: Gross motor skills
Age: 4-6 years old children
Goal: Stimulate children's hands and legs movements.
Average Level: Children must develop this gross motor games for preschoolers activity by themselves but following instructions.
Skills:
- Focus
- Following instructions
- Gross motor skills
- Self-esteem
- Self-confidence
MATERIALS
- Black balloons
- A cardboard
- Wooden sticks
- Tape
- Glue
ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT
Step 1:
Using the black cardboard draw some spider.
Step 2:
Cut the spiders and tape them to the wooden sticks.
Step 3:
Children must go to the departure spot and run doing zig-zag to bypass the spiders previously placed on the floor. At the end of the race, they will take a balloon and return to the departure jumping over each spider. That has to be made several times until they have picked up all the balloons.
ACTIVITY'S RESULT
Fun gross motor games for preschoolers. Children participate in an obstacle race to stimulate and strengthen their gross motor skills by running, jumping, and catching.
FREE PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
After this motor skills activities give kids new worksheets to keep them busy. Click the link below to download and print.
Download the Free Printable Spider Worksheets for Kids
HOW TO CARRY OUT THIS GROSS MOTOR GAMES FOR PRESCHOOLERS ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN OF OTHER AGES?
CHANGES FOR CHILDREN UNDER 4 YEARS OLD
If children still can't do this gross motor games for preschoolers activity as indicated, then they can run but not doing a zig-zag and return likewise.
CHANGES FOR CHILDREN OLDER THAN 6
To make this activity more exciting, older children can start crawling, they take the balloon and return jumping. That requires more physical activity and could be challenging for them.
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