Get-Moving Activity: Movement Stations for kids

(reposting this older post from when my kids were quite young to help parents looking for indoor activities to do with their kids! This is something I used to do when they were home from school, or before they went to school! It was fun)

I have previously written about how to keep the kids busy indoors during cold or rainy days.  There are a lot of ideas in that post that really work for us.

One activity I mentioned is to set up an obstacle course.  On Monday, building off of that idea, I set up ‘workout’ stations for the kids on the main floor.

They *loved* them.  They were happy to be moving and active and I choose activities that would keep their interest.

I set up three stations:

Jumping Jacks

The Plank (they lie on the floor and kind of ‘fly’ like Superman)

The Maze 

For the Maze I used painters tape and made a low section to jump over, then two higher ropes to glide under. Make this as difficult or easy as you want depending on the age of the kids. 

You could even pretend these workout/training stations are a part of their spy training, and then send them on a special spy mission!

The kids had a blast, each taking turns going through the course over and over again (and I got to sneak in some indoor exercise for all of us!)