Warm Up Manipulation & Coordination Activities for Reception

An imaginative warm-up where students perform different movements as if driving a car through various traffic situations

Teams compete to carry objects in creative ways around cones

Students respond to coloured cone signals with different movement patterns to develop listening skills and body awareness

Partners guide balls through cone gates using fingertip control

Students form circles and use hands to prevent a ball from rolling between their legs

Storytelling warm-up using Mr Men characters to practice different movement patterns and body positions

A rhythmic warm-up activity where students tap balloons to music while developing bilateral coordination

Cooperative parachute game where some children protect balls on top while others try to knock them off from underneath

Group cooperation activity using parachute to control ball movement toward or away from centre hole

Fast-paced reaction game where students avoid being 'bitten' by snakes (jump ropes) while shaking parachute

Exciting team collection game where students work together to gather 'dinosaur eggs' from the centre while practicing turn-taking and teamwork

Teams collect equipment from central nest while developing safe movement and turn-taking skills

Teams use rolling skills to knock down opponents' targets in an exciting team challenge

A themed warm-up where children follow traffic commands to practice varied movement patterns