Indoor Gross Motor Activities Week to Get Kids Moving Inside

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This is a week of indoor gross motor activities that are just meant to burn off that extra energy when you’re stuck inside.

There’s no ‘real’ (academic) learning involved, not themed in any way… just good ol’ fun physical movement activities to do inside.

Now is a good time to have some indoor activities planned, for those days that you’ll need them. When we have a lot more indoor time, it’s so hard to burn off their energy.

I always have a few go-to indoor ideas (like our fine motor rubber band activity and lines of tape), but it’s always good to have a way for them to go crazy for a few minutes, in a controlled way that I like.

Hence, the need for some indoor gross motor activities.

Free feel to plan your own week using our hundreds of indoor activities found here.

Here’s a week of super fun indoor gross motor activities to do with the kids.

Monday’s Indoor Gross Motor Activity: Walking on Pillows

Lay pillows and cushions on the floor in a line. Attempt to walk across them!

Supplies needed:

• pillows
• cushions

Find details: Walking on Pillows

Tuesday’s Active Fun Activity: Paper Hands & Feet

Trace and cutout your child’s hands and feet on paper. Tape the paper hands and feet to the floor and have your child match their hands and feet to the paper. Re-position the paper hands and feet and repeat!

Supplies needed:

• paper
• pencil
• scissors
• tape

Find details: Paper Hands & Feet

Wednesday’s Physical Game: Indoor snowball fight

Make snowballs with balled up socks, or wadded paper, and have a snowball fight!

Supplies needed:

• socks or paper

Find details: Indoor snowball fight

Thursday’s Indoor Activity to Get Moving: A Tape Road

Tape two lines as the sides of the roads around the house! Create intersections and curves!

Supplies needed:

• painter’s tape

Find details: A Tape Road

Friday’s Gross Motor Counting Activity: Simple Frisbee Toss

Tape 3 lines of tape on the floor about a foot apart. Stand back and toss the lids like a frisbee to land on the tape line!

Supplies needed:

• plastic lids
• painter’s tape

Find details: Simple Frisbee Toss

Saturday’s Physical Control Activity: Follow the Line Motor Planning

Lay out a jump rope on the floor in a long long. Move a ball from one end to the other along the rope using your hands… how about your foot?

Supplies needed:

• jump rope or string
• ball

Find details: Follow the Line Motor Planning

Sunday’s Family Fun Game: Don’t Step in the Lava!

Spread sheets of paper around the room, within jumping distance of each other. Jump from paper to paper to not step in the lava (the bare floor).

Supplies needed:

• paper or pillows

Find details: Don’t Step in the Lava!

For handy visual reference, here is the 7 days of indoor gross motor activities.

What are some of your favorite indoor gross motor activities to do with preschoolers?