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Home › Articles › Activities › It's a Carnival!

It's a Carnival!

Outside Fun That Promotes
Motor Skills

By Rae Pica, Children's Movement Specialist

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To offer practice with dynamic balance, place a jump rope or plank on the ground and invite your child to walk it as though he were a tightrope artist!

By its very nature the outdoors is more conducive to play more inspirational and stimulating to the imagination than the indoors. Chances are, some of your fondest childhood memories are of outdoor activities and places. Hold a backyard carnival for your children and you'll be making memories for them, too.

Beans and Bags
For throwing, tossing and catching, nothing beats a beanbag! Make these fun, homemade beanbags with your little one for fun inside and out.

You'll need:
Fabric (use your child's favorite sport, cartoon character, etc.)
Pinking shears
Embroidery thread
Embroidery needle
Pasta, rice or beans

Cut squares at least 5 inches in diameter out of the fabric with the pinking shears. Using the embroidery thread and needle, sew up all the way around leaving about an inch opening on one side. Let your child fill the bag up with rice, beans or pasta. Once full, sew up the opening.

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