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Let's Collect Spiders Gross Motor Games for Preschoolers Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)

Jul 18, 2021 ·

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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.

Let's Collect Spiders Gross Motor Games for Preschoolers Worksheets (4-6 Years Old)

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.

Let's collect spiders gross motor games for preschoolers with free printable worksheets

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

Materials Catching Spiders Gross Motor Games for Preschoolers Activity
  • Black balloons
  • A cardboard
  • Wooden sticks
  • Tape
  • Glue

ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT

Step 1:

Using the black cardboard draw some spider.

 draw some spider on the black cardboard. gross motor games for preschoolers

Step 2:

Cut the spiders and tape them to the wooden sticks.

Cut the spiders
tape the spiders 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.

run doing zig-zag to bypass the spiders

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.

gross motor skills catching the spider activity

FREE PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS

After this motor skills activities give kids new worksheets to keep them busy. Click the link below to download and print.

Free printable spiders worksheets for kids

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.

Do you like our fun gross motor games for preschoolers activity? Make sure to check out our other fun activities for preschoolers.

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  • Give kids fun activity to do. Check out this Caught in the Spiderweb Halloween Patterns Sensory Crafts Worksheets (4-6 Years Old)

Get adorable and fun outfits for your little ones. Check out this cute Scary Halloween Pumpkin Matching Mom and Baby Shirts.

I'd like to know what you think of our gross motor games for preschoolers. Please leave a comment below.

Halloween gross motor games for preschoolers. Let's collect the spiders activity
Let kids collect spiders in this gross motor games for preschoolers activity.

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