
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.
Browse Gross Motor Activities:


Dandelion Counting Race

A Balancing Indoor Activity for Toddlers

Fun & Simple Cornhole Game for Kids to Make

Jump & Grab the Matching Shapes

It’s a Windy Race to Make the Kids Silly

5 Physical Activities to Help Keep Kids Healthy

Photo Scavenger Hunt for Kids to Find Shapes

Nature Walk Scavenger Hunt: Leaf Counting

Follow the Lines to the Apple

Indoor Throwing Activity That Won’t Break Breakables

Easy to Make [and Fun to Use] Catch the Ball Toy

1, 2, 3 Counting Maze for Preschoolers

Number Maze for Kids Learning to Count

String a Line to Matching Pairs for Sight Words

Pom Pom Learning Games on the Stairs

Comparing Shapes with Snowballs

Turn These 15 Outdoor Activities into 15 Fun Indoor Activities for Kids

Kindergarten Math Activity to Solve Simple Addition Problems

Sort Colors & Get Moving With a Play Tunnel

Ring Toss Name Recognition Activity

Giant Spider Web Maze for Kids

Spider Web Sight Word Match

Explore Textures on an Outdoor Scavenger Hunt

Beginning Letter Sounds Sort Game

Super Power Rings Scavenger Hunt for Kids

The Kids Went Dumpster Diving… in a Cardboard Box!

Making Fitness for Kids FUN!

Lowercase Letters String Scavenger Hunt for Kids

A Beginning Letter Sounds Hunt for Toys to Wash

Learning Upper and Lowercase Letters on the Sidewalk

Gross Motor Activity: Can You Move Like Baby Does?

Big Art Project for Toddlers: Ribbon Painting

A ‘Spy Game’ Scavenger Hunt

Bean Bag Toss as a Sight Word Game

A Race to Learn Phonics: A Hands on Mom Feature

Fly a Homemade and Recycled Kite!

Poppin’ Balloons!

Energetic Activity: Letter Sound Punch Game

It’s Playtime! Get Moving Indoors!

Counting Blocks While Building Towers

30 Days to Hands on Play : Playful Fun

30 Days to Hands on Play : Pretend Islands

Outdoor Activities : Yet to do this Fall

It’s Playtime! : Energy Busters

Outdoor Play : Scavenger Hunt

Free Play : Fabric

Letter Learning Activity with the ABC Mat!

Easter Egg Hunt

Activity Course with Balloons

Play a Game of Balloon Badminton with Your Toddler

Box Flap Bridges & an Experiment

Bubble Pop Road & More

