DANCE!

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DANCE!

• Parents Teach your child a dance from your past
• Kids Teach your parents a cool new dance
• Move to the music pretending to be an animal on
  the paper plate
• Play Follow the Leader
• Play Musical Freeze (choose a leader who says
  freeze and everyone needs to freeze in a certain
  position)
• Interpretive Dance (dance however the music makes
  you feel)

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WACKY WALKING

• Walk together as a family around the perimeter of
  the room
• Jog-Walk-Jog-Walk when you get to each corner,
  change your speed
• Color Walk Walk to a color in the room
• Walk like an animal use your imagination and
  pretend you are different types of animals-how
  does each move differently
• Fitness Walk When you get to each polyspot, do
  the exercise on the spot

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SOCK BALL TENNIS

• Hit the ball over the net and play a game of
  tennis
• See how many times you can keep the ball in the
  air by hitting it to yourself
• See how many times you can keep the ball in the
  air by hitting it to a partner
• See how many times you can hit a target on the
  wall

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SODA POP BOWLING

• Roll with your dominant hand
• Roll with your non-dominant hand
• Do a 3-step bowling approach
• Add or multiply numbers together when keeping
  score.
• Play Builders and Bulldozers One person is
  the builder and sets up the pins, another person
  is the bulldozer and knocks them down. Play for
  a designated amount of time and see who wins!

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BALLOON VOLLEYBALL

• Hit the ball over the net and play a game of
  volleyball with a partner or team
• See how many times you can keep the balloon in
  the air by hitting it to yourself
• See how many times you can keep the balloon in
  the air by hitting it to a partner
• See how many different body parts you can hit the
  balloon with
• Play follow the leader and hit the balloon with
  the same body part that the leader did

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MILK JUG SCOOPS

• Play catch
• Keep count of how many catches you make as a team
• Stand apart from one another and play catch.
  Take a step backwards each time you make a
  successful catch. Take a step forwards each time
  you miss.
• See how many times you can toss it and catch it
  yourself. Each time you are successful, throw it
  a little higher in the air.

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PAPER PLATE SPORTS

• Use paper plates or your socks on the kitchen or
  hardwood floor!
• Ice Skating (twirls, forward skate, backward
  skate, create a routine to music)
• Cross Country Skiing
• Hockey
• Slalom Skiing

8
PLAYGROUND GAMES

• Go to the playground and encourage kids to slide,
  swing, and use upper body strength!
• Traditional games like hopscotch, four square,
  jump rope

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STEP AEROBICS

• How many different types of steps do you know?
  (A step, crossover step, basic step, etc.)
• How many times can you do the basic step in a
  minute?
• Can you create your own routine?
• Play Follow the Leader

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PUSH-UPS WITH PINACHE

• Do push-ups, or other muscular strength or
  flexibility activities, during the commercials of
  a TV Show
• How many different types of push-ups can you do?

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NOODLE GOLF

• Create your own backyard miniature golf game
• Create a golf course throughout your house
• Create a neighborhood golf course with each house
  becomes a different hole
• Use cardboard boxes or buckets as the hole.