Exercise FUN 4 Kids
It's important to make sure your kids are getting exercise! However, Kids exercise should be fun. Not enough parents know how to get their kids to exercise while having a ton of fun. Here are some activities to try with your kids to help them learn to love EXERCISE!
30 Ways to Make Exercise FUN!
1-TAG (any kind.....FREEZE, TOILET)
2-Dance Party in the living room
3-Playground
4-Bike Ride
5-Walk to the Park
6-Obstacle Course (Inside or outside-put up obstacles and have the kids race through them while you time them)
7-Relay Races (crab walk, bear crawl, caterpillar, one legged hop, sprint, carry an egg on a spoon)
8-Steal the Flag (two teams, hide the flags, try to find without getting caught)
9-Kick the Can (One person tags everyone and puts them in prison and if the can gets kicked, all the prisoners are free)
10-No bears are out tonight (if a car passes run back to the front door)
11-Cops and Robbers (cops get to give robbers 3 tickets for running pretend lights, then cops and robbers switch places)
12-Sports (soccer, basketball, kickball, football, baseball, dodge ball....you name it)
13-Chugglavan (Group Tag- Grass seekers lay on grass and fall asleep, try to catch the bugs that try to sneak past them)
14-Kids Exercise Videos on You Tube (tons of these, take a look)
15-Hot Lava (outside or in, jump from couch to couch, paper to paper, the ground is the lava, fun on a playground)
16-Skipping Wars (teach your kids to skip, then have skipping races)
17-Jump Rope
18-Follow the Leader
19-Pillow Fight
20-Popcorn Pushups (have to pick up a piece of popcorn with their mouth every time they go down)
21-52,000 Pickup (clean the house the fastest)
22-Clean Team Dash (dance, clean and dash together-you need Music!)
23-Frisbee
24-Kites
25-Skates
26-Swimming
27-Scooters
28-Hiking
29-Hopscotch (create your own out of tape)
30-Four Square (tape works too!)
2-Dance Party in the living room
3-Playground
4-Bike Ride
5-Walk to the Park
6-Obstacle Course (Inside or outside-put up obstacles and have the kids race through them while you time them)
7-Relay Races (crab walk, bear crawl, caterpillar, one legged hop, sprint, carry an egg on a spoon)
8-Steal the Flag (two teams, hide the flags, try to find without getting caught)
9-Kick the Can (One person tags everyone and puts them in prison and if the can gets kicked, all the prisoners are free)
10-No bears are out tonight (if a car passes run back to the front door)
11-Cops and Robbers (cops get to give robbers 3 tickets for running pretend lights, then cops and robbers switch places)
12-Sports (soccer, basketball, kickball, football, baseball, dodge ball....you name it)
13-Chugglavan (Group Tag- Grass seekers lay on grass and fall asleep, try to catch the bugs that try to sneak past them)
14-Kids Exercise Videos on You Tube (tons of these, take a look)
15-Hot Lava (outside or in, jump from couch to couch, paper to paper, the ground is the lava, fun on a playground)
16-Skipping Wars (teach your kids to skip, then have skipping races)
17-Jump Rope
18-Follow the Leader
19-Pillow Fight
20-Popcorn Pushups (have to pick up a piece of popcorn with their mouth every time they go down)
21-52,000 Pickup (clean the house the fastest)
22-Clean Team Dash (dance, clean and dash together-you need Music!)
23-Frisbee
24-Kites
25-Skates
26-Swimming
27-Scooters
28-Hiking
29-Hopscotch (create your own out of tape)
30-Four Square (tape works too!)