Get
scrap cardboard, a marker, tape, and you’ll be set to make your own fitness
trail. Cut the cardboard into 8” x
10” pieces. Write different body
and brain exercises on each card and tape to different locations on your
playground. For example:
10
jumping jacks
say
a nursery rhyme
8
windmills
count
backwards from 20
12
squats
name
your city, state, and country
15
sit ups
name
5 insects
7
push ups
sing
the ABC’s forwards and then backwards
Foot
Painting
Roll
out a long sheet of butcher paper on the sidewalk. Take two pie pans and pour a little paint in each one. Let one child at a time take off her
shoes, step in the paint, and then walk across the paper.
Banana
on a Stick
Peel
a banana, insert a popsicle stick, place on a cookie sheet and freeze. It’s a cool snack on a hot day. Grapes, strawberries, blue berries, and
many other types of fruit can also be frozen.