Support Your Child to be Active

Skill of the Month:

Coming soon... tips and games you can regularly practice with your child to help develop their skills to make them become more confident and motivated.

Family Packs:

Enjoy fun activities designed for practicing skills and movement together as a family or individually.

Active Storytime:

Bringing books to life through fun and games! Active Story Time is a fun way for young children to be active whilst listening to a story. The idea is easy; whilst reading a book, your child can move like the characters in the story! Books with animals in the story are especially great! Children can use their imagination and have fun!

Here’s some ideas:

Ten Little Dinosaurs – can your child stomp like a dinosaur? Walk with BIG steps/lunges around the room, stomp quietly or loudly!

What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside – walk sideways like a crab….

Elfed’s New Friend – slither like a snake, jump like a kangaroo, be tall like a giraffe

Going on a Bear Hunt; children can go under, through and over obstacles that you have within the home. For example, they can crawl under the table or a blanket.

Sometimes I want to Curl up in to a Ball – curl up in a ball like a hedgehog, jump high like a frog, run fast like a cheetah

If you don’t have these books at home, why not visit your local library? We have also provided activity bags that you can loan out too!

Engaging activities to make stories come alive while getting your child moving. Using a book with animals and move like the animals in the story – jump like a kangaroo, hope like a bunny. Try these at home or check out your local library.