
Active Gross Motor Movement Activities for Kids

Gross motor activities are a great way for kids to spend all that energy that gets built up!
We have tons of indoor and outdoor gross motor activities to do with the kids that you'll find below. Young kids learn best while moving around! Get them up and moving!
Because we value movement so much here at Hands On As We Grow, we have created full week of indoor gross motor activities to help your child get the wiggles out when you can't get outside (by the way, you can also take these outside)!
Enter your email below to get the active (gross motor movement) indoor week of activities download, so you have it quick and easy, at your fingertips.
In this week of active movement activities, you'll get a taste of what we provide inside The Activity Room.
While this week for you to download is around a provided theme (active movement indoors), The Activity Room provides weeks of fun, week after week, continually around all the areas of development for 2-5 year olds! The fun literally never ends!
We also provide an extra themed week of activities to our annual members that are committed for the entire year. There is so much fun to be had!
If you're on looking to burn off their energy...
There's a reason we created a week of movement activities! We believe kids learn best while moving, and in general, little kids need to move! You may also want a week of move and learn activities. Check it out.
And... remember it's best to build the kids' gross motor skills before working with fine motor activities!
Check out all the gross motor activities below.
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Super Simple Number Match Slap with Playing Cards

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Easy Bean Bag Number Toss Game on the Stairs

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CandyLand Color Sorting Game with Lots of Movement

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