That child's card (name recognition) and Write down their answer on their index card. In advance, print each child's name on an index card.Īs each child gives you an answer, show the group Return to Top Preschool Fitness Theme Circle Time IdeasĬircle Time is such a great time for children to learn the social skills of being together as a large group AND to learn more about your Preschool Fitness Theme!Īsk the children if they know of ways they can stay healthy? Accept all answers. You could also do the same with the small brown lunch bags. Let's add to that using brown grocery bags! Stuff them with newspaper and then tape them with clear packing tape and add them to your block area. Perhaps you even have a supermarket in your dramatic play area. You've talked about fitness in preschool and the importance of healthy eating. The children can use these materials to build a hospital, a gym, a park or playground to play on! Also provide toy people and pets to walk in the park! Use larger blocks to make cars, trucks or ambulances to get where they need to be! Materials Needed: Add interlocking blocks to your block area such as Duplo or larger Lego. Return to Top Preschool Fitness Theme Block Center Ideas When dry, provide laces or yarn for the children to practice lacing! Provide a variety of paint colors and paint brushes and let them decorate their "shoes". Hole punch a few holes near the middle (they will lace this part later!) Help the children to trace their own foot (with their shoe on) and then cut it out as best they can. Materials Needed: paper, crayons, scissors, hole puncher, paint, paintbrushes, colored laces or yarn. This will most likely be a several day project as the children will lose interest in coloring their own life-size "Me" in one day! Talk about the different muscles and bones and how to stay fit. Provide fabric for them to decorate the rest of their bodies.
Provide mirrors and have the children draw their faces on their papers. Be sure to print each child's name on their tracing! Enlist help from parents to do this and to cut out their tracings. Trace each child on a large piece of paper. Materials Needed: Large paper to trace children on, marker Use these to "work out" in your gym in dramatic play! They should then lace the ribbon and/or yarn into the holes around the edges. They can then use the markers to decorate and glue on the Have them tape the construction paper strip around the tube in the middleĪnd explain that this is where they will hold their dumbbells and therefore they should not glue anything on that part.ĭemonstrate how to hold a dumbbell and lift it up and down! The children should decorate the paper towel tubes. Near the edges on both sides of the tubes.
Also, use a hole punch to punch some holes In advance, tie a jingle bell on the ends of some of the ribbon and yarn pieces. Materials Needed: Paper towel tubes strips of colored construction paper (approximately 2 inches wide by 4 inches long) scraps of yarn and ribbon small jingle bells miscellaneous paper and items that they can tape onto the tubes markers and clear tape But, just let them go at it! Display these pictures either in your dramatic play area or your classroom library area! Something that they can not see that is under their skin is a bit abstract for them. This is a tough concept for them as preschoolers are so concrete and discussing Materials Needed: black construction paper, white chalkĮncourage the children to draw pictures of themselves and what they think their bones might look like. The children shake the tray or box top from left to right over and over again as the balls or marbles drag the paint around the paper. Put some paint on the paper (we usually water the paint down a bit so that marbles don't get stuck in it!). Materials Needed: small balls or large marbles, a box top or other shallow item with edges paper, paintĬhildren print their name on their paper.