Family Activity Ideas for This Week: March 30
OK Everyone…here we go! “Spring Break” is over and WEIRD APRIL is here. Kids not at school, parents working at home…under one roof TOGETHER…24/7!
We all need to move, so below, we have some more FREE activities for you and your families. Have fun! Try them…change them…just move and play! Your physical and mental health will thank you!
ALSO, sign your kids up for our “live” kids action classes each week on Zoom. They need the activity for so many reasons, the positive engagement will be awesome for them, and you need a couple breaks from them!
Kid’s Action Classes “LIVE” on Zoom
Strange/Epic times have us all at home, penned up, and out of our routines. We all need to move more, both for the physical/mental health and stress relief. Play.FIt.Fun’s Virtual Kids Acton Classes are “LIVE” on ZOOM at 2pm every Tuesday & Thursday, March 31-April 30. The classes will be 40-minutes of fun activity that your kids will be able to do inside, or outside depending on the weather! We have some great stuff planned for them. Take PE, Field Day, Team Building, Minute To Win It…put them all in a blender and that’s what our kids action class is like. The tuition for these classes is just $5 per child per class. So only $40 for a family with 1 child and $80 for a family with 2 kids. Each class will be different to keep things fun, fresh and exciting. As with all of our classes after school in the schools, we will have very fun activities, that will get the kids moving and having a great time!! EMAIL COACH SPENCER ASAP TO RESERVE SPACE IN FUN “LIVE” KID’S ACTION CLASS!
Free Activities For You This Week
1-2-3
Fun Active/Interactive game. ROUND 1: The players walk around the playing area. When someone says stop, everyone finds a partner and for 60-90-seconds, they compete. They take turns counting to 3, and continue rotating back and forth until one player fails. Then they start over. For example: Player 1 says 1,Player 2 says 2, Player 1 says 3, Player 2 says 1, Player 1 says 2, Player 2 says 3…and it keeps going. After the 60-90, seconds, everyone walks or skips around the playing area, when someone else says stop again, then they start over with a new partner. ROUND 2: Identical, except you replace the #2 with a finger snap. So it will go 1-Snap-3 and rotates, just like the 1-2-3 in round 1. After 3 sessions of this, ROUND 3: Identical, except 2 is back, and 3 is replaced with a hand clap: So it goes 1-2-Clap. ROUND 4: Identical, except 2 & 3 go away for good, and the rotation is 1-Snap-Clap. If you are a family of 3 or 5, you could have a group of 3 compete with 2 people, and the losing player steps out, as the watching player jumps in to play the winning player.
Ball Pass
This is a group game, where the entire family will work together. It is simply fun and collaborative, with tons of teamwork. One player passes a small ball to another player next to him/her. Once the ball is passed a certain way (For example, held with left forefinger and left thumb) from one player to another. It can never be passed that way ever again. If a player runs out of ideas, or begins to pass the ball a way that has already been used, teammates can help them with ideas. Tons of creative thought, communication, and collaboration.
Hacky Sack Attack
Kind of a tag game. Everyone gets a hacky sack and they have to balance it flat on their extended palm. At no point can they close their fingers around their hacky sacks. Make a small playing area, so the players are relatively close to each other. Note, you can make the playing area larger, IF you want. The players have to chase each other around without dropping their hacky sacks, and attempt to tap their opponent’s arms or hands to knock the hacky sacks out of their hands. If that happens, the player who made the hacky sack fall gets a point. Note, make sure everyone keeps score. It can be a challenge as the action is fast, and you have to multi task by playing the game and keeping score. As you will see, if you keep the playing area small, so the players are close to each other, it becomes faster and a bit more difficult. We like to have the tagging done with only 2 fingers. Another option for the game would be to play a round where players hold their hacky sack in the palm of their weaker hand.
Fast Fingers
This is a fun game that begins with the players in pairs, facing each other. Both partners start with their hands behind their back. Together, they say 1,2,3, go! On go, they both hold up any number of fingers using both hands and the goal is to quickly count how many fingers are being held up between the two of them. First one to yell out the correct number wins! The only number that is off limits is a double zero from a player (two closed fists, no fingers sticking up). Play each round for approximately 1 minute, then start over with a new partner. This can also be played in groups of 3, having them take turns. Slower tempo game that uses teamwork, math skills, and quick thinking! IF you want a physical action penalty for losing players, have them do 5 somethings: Squats or Jumping Jacks work.
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