Animal Walks
Animal Walks
Age:
0-2 years, 2-3 years, 3-5 years, 5-8 years
Participants:
2+
Time:
5-10 minutes
Setting:
Home, School, ECEC
Cones (optional)

Skills
Set Up:
- Mark out an area that kids can animal walk in
Description:
Kids have to move around like the animal that the coach says, for example:
- Hop like a kangaroo
- Jump like a frog
- Crawl like a bear
- Walk tall like a giraffe
- Run fast like a cheetah
- Walk like a crab
- Zoo! Be any animal that you like
Variations:
- Ask children to come up with the next animal walk to do
- Make the animal noises!
Teaching Points:
Jumping
- Land like you are riding a motorbike – arms forward, ankles, knees and hips bent, feet apart
- Land as quiet as a mouse
- Swing & Spring
- Reach for a star and bring it down again
Hopping
- Quiet landings (bend ankles, knees and hips)
- Bend your leg to push off
- Head up and eyes forward (look towards where you are hopping)
- Swing & spring
Balancing
- Head up
- Aeroplane arms
- Eyes looking forward at something ahead of them (eg. Tree)