Preschool Fitness Education

Find tips and ideas on teaching preschool aged children about health and fitness. Education about physical fitness isn’t always about a focused lesson or activity. Often it’s the simple habits that adults build into a preschooler’s day. Help preschoolers develop healthy attitudes about exercise, food choices and body image. Preschool Fitness Education explores all kinds of topics about increasing a preschooler’s fitness level now and into the future.

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What is Movement Exploration - Learning About Preschool Fitness Activities
Have you heard about movement exploration? Learn the basic concepts of movement exploration, the most age appropriate type of fitness activities for preschoolers. Through movement exploration, preschoolers learn problem solving skills, decision making skills and abstract concept skills while moving and staying fit.

Pin the Heart on the Human - Fitness Education Game
Provide heart healthy education for Valentine's Day with a game that teaches the location of basic body organs. Follow up this fun game with a life sized art activity. For a preschool health education unit, for heart healthy celebrations or as a Valentine's Day game, Pin the Heart on the Human provides fun and fitness lessons.

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Action Songs For Preschoolers
By Kimbo, this CD plays songs and gives directions for preschoolers to tap their toes, stretch high, march in a circus parade and other fun fitness movements. Preschoolers will develop rhythm skills, body part recognition, coordination, flexibility, and listening skills as they follow the speaker directions to the sound of fun songs.

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Signs of a Good Preschool
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Paint-in-a-Bag Sensory Activity
The paint-in-a-bag sensory activity is a simple, no mess alternative to finger painting. Preschoolers can experience the squishy texture of the paint, and see first hand how two colors blend to make a third, brand-new color all in the confines of a sealed plastic bag. Now that’s “clean” fun that both mom and preschooler will love!

Calcium Requirements for Preschoolers
Getting enough calcium early in life is important to bone health later in life. Find out your preschooler's calcium requirements and offer these calcium-rich foods and drinks.