Create a Home Challenge Course

What You Need:

• Index cards or blank paper
• Markers

What You Do: 

1. Get out 5–10 notecards (or small pieces of paper).
2. On each card, write one of the following:
   • hop and share (name as many countries as you can)
   • sit-up
   • plank
   • reach up to the sky and down to your toes
   • balance on one foot
   • run in place
   • stretch
   • drink water
   • wall sit
3. Feel free to make changes to the list or add some of your own!
4. Place the cards in a stack, and explain to your child that they will be choosing one card at a time and completing the activity for the duration of a one-minute timer. 
5. Set the timer for one minute and begin!
6. Support your child as needed (such as modeling how to do a modified push-up or sit-up).
7. Create a second set of challenges for your child to accomplish, this time focusing on different parts of the body (stretching muscles, gross motor movements, etc.) or using a different amount of time. You can even get the whole family involved for a friendly competition, or set up a circuit where each person performs a different activity and rotates around the circuit until everyone has completed each challenge!