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Walking Activities for Kids

As any parent will tell you, kids are the sidewalk or in the yard. One bucket
moving all the time. Nature has is the starting "line" and the other
programmed kids to move, but many of them bucket is the finish "line." Kids walk
are not moving because they are stuck in backwards from start to finish.AROUND THE
front of the television, the computer, TOWN. Using poster board or grocery
and computer games. This is where store boxes, make location signs for your
parenting comes in, because you, the community: city hall, library, school,
parent or grandparent, can foster recreation center, movie theater,
children's exercise.Kids should wear baseball field, and similar locations.
sturdy shoes and comfy socks without Number the signs and arrange them in a
holes. (Leave the flip-flops at home.) circle. Kids start at number one and
They should also wear caps or hats to walk round the town. How many steps did
protect them from the sun and sunscreen. each child take?SPEED WALKING. Each
Do some stretching exercises with your child wears a pedometer as his or her
kids beforehand. Give each child his or waist. At the sound of go, kids walk as
her own water bottle and pedometer. fast as they can across the playground or
Measure each child's stride before you a field. Who took the most steps? Who
start these walking activities.Some took the least?RUN-WALK RACE. Repeat the
activities are appropriate for backyard speed walking activity, only this time
fun, while others get your kids out into the kids run 10 steps and walk 10
the community. Fitness is a family steps.STEP AND SLIDE. Repeat the speed
affair, so walk with your kids. You will walking activity, only this time the kids
be amazed at the discoveries you make and step with their feet, slide their right
the things you learn about each other. feet up to the left, and continue walking
Now tie those shoelaces, tie a sweater this way until they have crossed the
around your waist, and get going!COUNT playground or field.Don't let your kids
THE BIRDS. Young kids count the number become couch potatoes. Get them off the
of birds they see during the walk. Older couch and keep them moving. Keep
kids and adults identify the birds by yourself moving, too. Everyone in the
name. Read about the birds in a bird family can walk the fitness trail to
book when you get home.COLOR SEARCH. better health and a better life.Copyright
During the walk kids look for one color, 2006 by Harriet Hodgson
such as red. Anything they see that is Hodgson has been a freelance nonfiction
that is this color, such as a car, stop writer for 28 years and is a member of
sign, and a red jacket, counts as one the Association of Health Care
point. Who saw the most things?BABY Journalists and the Association for Death
STEPS. Place two plastic ice cream Education and Counseling. She taught for
buckets on the sidewalk or in the yard. a dozen years before changing careers to
Using baby steps - touching the heel of become a writer. Her 24th book, "Smiling
one foot to the toes of the other - kids Through Your Tears: Anticipating Grief,"
walk between the buckets.LONGEST STRIDE. written with Lois Krahn, MD, is available
Place two plastic ice cream buckets on from A five-star review of the book is
the sidewalk or in the yard. Using their posted on Amazon. Another review is
longest stride, kids walk from the first posted on the American Hospice Foundation
bucket to the second.BACKWARD BOUNCE. website under the "School Corner"
Place two plastic ice cream buckets on heading.




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