Warm Up Gymnastics Activities for EYFS

Children form letter shapes with their bodies on mats, developing body awareness and letter recognition

Children move like different animals then create partner balances on one leg

A movement warm-up where students travel as different animals at varying levels

Students explore different ways to move on, over, under and around gymnastics apparatus in small groups

A fun warm-up game using hoops to prepare children for ground-level gymnastics work

Calm performance opportunity with peer observation and vocabulary reflection

An active warm-up game where tagged students must balance on different body parts until rescued

A listening and reaction game where students jump across a line following commands

A listening and movement game where students travel around and touch different body parts to the ground on command

Children explore balancing on different large body parts (patches) with control and pointed toes

Dynamic warm-up exploring contrasting big and small movements with champion posture

Dynamic warm-up introducing champion gymnastics qualities through high and low movement exploration

Dynamic warm-up where students explore free movement using champion gymnastics principles

Children explore different ways of moving while following 'champion gymnast' rules

Dynamic warm-up introducing champion gymnastics qualities through high and low movement exploration

A dynamic warm-up focusing on high and low body positions with champion movement qualities

A movement exploration warm-up that assesses students' natural movement while introducing 'champion' qualities

Students explore champion gymnastics qualities through partner movement sequences and shape holds

Progressive sequence building where students copy movements and add new actions to create longer sequences

Dynamic warm-up where students clap and step to syllables in flower names, developing rhythm awareness and connecting language to movement patterns

Animal-themed warm-up using different jumping commands to develop landing technique

Children explore different travelling movements through an imaginary forest, responding to signals with freeze positions

Dynamic warm-up game where children travel while avoiding being frozen by ice taggers and rescued by sun helpers

Musical movement game where students jump around hoops and respond to stop signals