Nursery World - EYFS Activities: Five ways to engage… A very active child

Satisfying energetic children, from mini-parkour to watering the plants. By Julie Mountain

Satisfying a child with oodles of energy can be exhausting in itself; yet all young children need to be outdoors and active every day – and the British Heart Foundation recommends at least three hours of energetic activity every day.

1 GYM/MINI-PARKOUR

Mark out a gym or mini-parkour route around the garden, highlighting locations where the very physical child can stretch, jump, bounce, roll, crawl, balance and pull up – use simple laminated labels to identify each ‘station’. Very active children will appreciate opportunities for progressive challenge, so plan movements which, over time, can be become more complex, or faster or require more strength or energy.

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