Skill Game Fundamental Movement Skills Activities for Nursery

Children gallop while manipulating bean bags, responding to commands to put down and collect bags in a musical chairs style game

Exciting game where children dodge soft 'boulders' while crossing mountain terrain

Partners sit facing each other and react quickly to colour calls by reaching for cones

Children hop to coloured hoops based on teacher's colour association clues

An engaging movement game where children act as frogs crossing a pond using different jumping techniques on lily pads and rocks, with freeze balance challenges

Students learn hopping technique through a traffic light system that controls movement and develops balance

Children practice sliding movements to music and freeze like statues when music stops, with gentle team competition element

Classic musical statues game with focus on demonstrating quality walking technique and immediate stopping

Pairs set up jumping courses and take turns challenging each other to reach targets

Pairs take turns jumping for distance while applying correct technique and supporting their partner

Students apply jumping skills to imaginative real-life situations

Students apply jumping skills by mimicking sports actions like basketball shooting and football heading

A fast-paced game where students hop around markers then quickly find the nearest one on command

Children walk along lines like tightrope walkers while carefully picking up 'treasure' objects placed beside the lines

Fast-paced team game where children jump on molehills to help fix the garden