Keeping Active
Ideas for keeping your child active.
Active Home Week
Active HOME Week’ Challenge (April 27th – May 3rd)
This year Active Schools are hosting Active Home Week instead of our usual Active School Week. To complete the challenge children have to find four different ways of being active, every day, making sure that this adds up to 60 MINUTES, or more. Children are encouraged to try something NEW, have FUN with a family activity and to ENJOY the week! Follow @active flag on twitter for ideas and further information.
Check out this page for ideas on how to keep active.
GoNoodle® offers movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts. Free accounts for home. Also, check out their youtube channel - great for a rainy day!!
Cosmic Kids is kid-friendly approach to yoga! Jaime walks you through a story using various yoga poses. Check out the Cosmic Kids Yoga Chanel on Youtube.
Joe Wicks a.k.a. The Body Coach offers free fitness videos for all ages & for all fitness levels. Click here for his Kids Workouts
GAA Skills
My Football Skills Booklet from LGFA Click here to download
Fundamental Movement Skills from the GAA Learning Zone
Activity Breaks
Try out as many of these exercises outside as you can (don't forget to keep your social distance!)
- Go for a walk. (Bring the dog if you have one!!)
- Go for a scoot or a cycle.
- Jump on the trampoline.
- Draw your own hopscotch with chalk and play.
- Throw a ball against a wall and catch.
- Create your own obstacle course.
- Run for 5 minutes or do laps around your house.
- Bubble bashing - get someone to blow bubbles for you to try and burst all of them
- Keepie uppies - how many can you do in a row?