With the growing epidemic of obesity among children, child care providers must take special care to make sure the children in their care get adequate physical activity to build both health and fitness. This means that children need regular structured and unstructured active times during their child care day.
During structured active times, plan activities that are fun and active. Thirty minutes of structured activity is recommended each day for toddlers and sixty minutes a day is recommended for preschoolers. Structured play will involve rules, games like tag, Red Rover, Simon Says, baseball, etc.
Unstructured free play outside is equally important to children’s health and development. During this time you might offer a variety of outdoor play equipment, which you can rotate to keep the children interested. On a windy day, you might give the children a length of ribbon and let them run around to make it blow behind them. There does not absolutely have to be equipment to play with. Imaginative children can make up their own game without it.
Related training:
Childhood Obesity (1 hour / .1 CEU)
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