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28 Best PE Games With Absolutely No Equipment

P.E. lessons can be a bit daunting at times. All that equipment to organize and worry about. Yuck! Then there are the safety aspects to consider. Eek! The good news is, there are plenty of simple P.E. games that you can use with no equipment! The Ultimate List of PE Games With No Equipment Whether …

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Mindful Movement For Kids – 14 Games + Tips!

Children love to move about! You’ve probably noticed this – but how do you link this to being mindful? Mindfulness activities have huge benefits for children. It relaxes them, calms them down, and helps them think and learn much better. But how do you get them to be mindful and move at the same time? …

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22 Tag Games For Kids – The Ultimate Guide

Tag is pretty much running around chasing your friends, and that’s all there is to it, right? Wrong! There are a huge number of variations of tag. There are games that involve contact, non-contact, one person ‘tag’ games, team games, ones that involve dinosaurs, cops and robbers, and so much more! In ten years of …

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30 Brilliant Balloon Games For Kids

Balloon games are fantastic for getting children to cooperate, get active and have fun. I have taught children between the ages of 3-5 for the last ten years, and I have used balloon games regularly to get children working as a team and communicating in an exciting context. The whole curriculum can be linked to …

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Outdoor Math Games – 50 Ideas That Really Work

Getting maths into the outdoors is one of the biggest concerns many practitioners have. It is probably the thing I am asked about the most where maths is concerned. This post is by far the most comprehensive quantity of high-quality outdoor math activities for children aged 3 to 6 that you will be able to …

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Loose Parts Play Outdoors – Resources, Ideas, Tips

If you are interested in loose parts play, you may well have wondered how to best support it outside. How easily can it be achieved? What resources or skills do you need to get it going? What does loose parts play outside look like? What storage or budget may you need? Is it all worth …

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Forest School Superhero Activities – 12 Ideas

There are so many children these days that are obsessed with superheroes. Superhero play infiltrates everything: games involving the Three Little Pigs are suddenly invaded by the Hulk and Spider Man. Many practitioners are learning that superhero play is probably something better to work with, rather than stamp out. If the children are so passionately …

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11 Fantastic Parachute Music Games

Parachutes and music go hand-in-hand brilliantly. Parachutes help children move in time, and really experience music in many ways. They are also brilliant for cooperation, and when children explore music with a parachute, they are also learning all sorts of other skills too. What are the best parachute music games? Some excellent parachute music games …

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Parachute animal games – 15 fantastic ideas

In ten years of teaching in the early years, I have always found parachute games one of the most exciting strategies for developing teamwork and cooperation. Many of the favourite games, and the ones that children often ask for again and again, are the animal games. What sort of parachute animal games can you play? …

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Parachute Phonics Games – 10 Brilliant Ideas

Parachutes are one of the most versatile and fun pieces of equipment to teach a range of skills in the early years. They are fantastic for maths, social skills and physical development. But what about phonics? Though used less for phonics than other areas of the curriculum, parachute games are a brilliant way of bringing …

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