Obstacle Course!

This is a GREAT activity to do on long snowy winter days stuck inside the house, and it turns out it works for long way-too-hot summer days stuck inside the house too!

Grab anything and everything you can use to do something physical with...(think hula hoops, jump ropes, masking tape put on the floor in a line, folding chairs with a blanket draped across them to make a tunnel, couch cushions, brooms held sideways as a limbo stick, you get the idea).

Line them up in any order. If you don't have a great big space, you can make the course run throughout your house, in different rooms and down hallways.

Show your kids what to do...hop off the kitchen chair, do a somersault to the couch cushions, hop on one leg onto each couch cushion, crawl under the blanket tunnel, do a silly dance and tip toe along the masking tape line. Keep it short at first and then you can add things on as they get bored.

After they've played for awhile, let them rearrange and come up with their own course. They'll love being the boss! Liliana's involved swinging while singing.

We are very blessed to have a large space with lots of large motor type toys for this kind of thing...we have a mini trampoline with bar, cube climber with slide, crawl through tunnel, swing and gymnastic rings in our basement. Liliana is a VERY physical child and plays with those types of toys more than anything else, but you can improvise with this idea with anything you have in your house. Creating the course is half the fun!

Check out Micah showing off his mad gymnastics skills...

This is also a fun thing to do outside and you could even incorporate water into some of the activities to cool off!