Animal Walks

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)