Source: Arthur

Explore movement and creative play by imitating animals and playing choral chanting games. Explain why it is okay to act silly sometimes.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness, The Arts

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Drama/Dramatics.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Super Why

Improve fine-motor and alphabet sequencing skills while associating letters with the sounds they make. Complete mazes by drawing lines connecting letters in alphabetic order, naming each letter and identifying its sound.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness, Reading & Language Arts

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Organizing Information & Ideas. Reading: Emergent Literacy Skills.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Arthur

Explore creative movement in exercises based on yoga. Pretend you are a cat or a tree as you stretch, bend and twist your body.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Boohbah

Investigate joints by exploring ways that you can bend your arms and legs, and observe other things in your home and neighborhood that use joints to bend. Discuss animals and objects that have a hard shell for protection.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Life Science.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Arthur

Practice gross motor skills, counting and feelings of self esteem through a milk bottle bowling game.

Grade Level: PreK

Subjects: Health & Fitness, Math

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Numbers and Operations.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Arthur

Participate in a dramatic play by following the leader in a movement story. March, stretch, growl and run in the order given by the events in the story.

Grade Level: PreK

Subjects: Health & Fitness, The Arts

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Drama/Dramatics.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Boohbah

Investigate animals with webbed feet, and observe how their feet help them move in water. Pretend you have webbed feet, and move like a penguin or duck.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Life Science.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies

Learn how fossils are tracks left by long-ago animals on different surfaces. Make fossil cookies by stamping "tracks" of different items on the dough before baking.

Grade Level: PreK

Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Life Science.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Arthur

Design and build a track with obstacles you must go over, under, around or through. Participate in a non-competive event with a variety of games that develop gross motor skills.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Arthur

Examine pictures, discuss eating habits and learn new vocabulary related to horses. Role-play the ways horses move, and share "horsey" snacks of apples, carrots and oat cereal.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Life Science.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Arthur

Imitate simple body movements in rhythm and mirror-image activities. Related episode: D.W. the Copycat

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Dragon Tales

Practice tying knots while "corraling" some stuffed animals. Knot yarn or string around an animal and lead it to the corral.

Grade Level: PreK

Subjects: Health & Fitness

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Arthur

Create and perform dances to music from different cultures and time periods.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness, The Arts

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Dance. Music.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Arthur

Create a homemade guitar, imagine where you would go if you could bounce as high as you want and practice gross-motor skills by bouncing around the room.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness, The Arts

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Crafts. Music.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Arthur

Create new words and movements to go with the tune of a favorite song, based on characters from children's literature. Sing and perform your song as a group.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness, The Arts

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Music.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Arthur

Discover ways to communicate without talking. Use movements to demonstrate an activity, and guess what activities other children are portraying.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness, The Arts

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Drama/Dramatics.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Caillou

Cut safely with scissors, color cut-out clothing and dress a Caillou paper doll. Identify appropriate clothing for different types of weather.

Grade Level: PreK

Subjects: Health & Fitness

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Safety.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Arthur

Develop fine and gross motor skills by playing games with beanbags and balls. Related episode: Arthur and the True Francine

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Boohbah

Explore how force and direction affect how far you throw a ball. Practice prediction and cause and effect skills in this outdoor activity.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Physical Science.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Investigate how liquid changes to a solid. Practice positive social skills while making popsicles.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Social Skills. Physical Science.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Super Why

Practice letter recognition, letter sounds and spelling while playing movement games. Make large letters to tape on the floor and then use them to play variations of Red Light, Green Light, Twister and other games.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness, Reading & Language Arts

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Reading: Emergent Literacy Skills.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Practice and develop eye-hand coordination and motor skills by throwing a rag ball into a paper grocery bag.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Discover how shadows are made, differentiate between shadows and real things or persons and express feelings with shadow dancing.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Physical Science.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Develop fine motor skills, and consider emotional control and proper use of one's hands while cutting drinking straws into pieces and threading them onto a piece of yarn to make a necklace.

Grade Level: PreK, K-2

Subjects: Health & Fitness, The Arts

Topics: Mental/Emotional Health. Motor/Movement Skills. Crafts.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project

Source: Arthur

Play two games that require teamwork as you work with a partner. Match body parts and pass your partner on a narrow "bridge" while working together to accomplish a goal.

Grade Level: PreK

Subjects: Health & Fitness

Topics: Motor/Movement Skills. Social Skills.

Resource Type: Offline Activity/Project