Warm Up Fundamental Movement Skills Activities for Year 1

Students move around hoops to music, then transfer objects between hoops when music stops

Students explore different jumping techniques by copying animal movements

Learn and practice bear crawl, inch worm, and gorilla walk movements with proper technique

Students mimic animal movements to warm up their jumping muscles

A fun tag game where students freeze in balance positions to avoid being caught

A cooperative tag game where students help unfreeze each other by 'peeling' their arms

Fun warm-up where children act out different types of beans with specific movements

Interactive listening game where children perform different movements based on bean names called out

Fundamental movement activity teaching students the difference between twisting and turning through guided exploration.

Active dodging game where students move backwards across an area while avoiding soft ball 'boulders' thrown gently by side throwers

Interactive warm-up using car commands to explore different running speeds

Children act out a car journey responding to driving commands while moving around the space

Partner-based reaction game where students must accelerate quickly to reach safety before being tagged

A foundational activity where students practice forming circles and moving together as a group while developing spatial awareness and following directions

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

Children run to designated compass points when directions are called

Partner activity developing coordination, cooperation and quick reactions through cone collecting challenges.

A fast-paced tag game where children run to safety islands with limited capacity

A collaborative tag game where tagged students join hands with taggers to form chains

A dynamic listening game where children move around the space and respond to position commands

Children move in different directions responding to verbal commands to develop listening skills and spatial awareness

Progressive warm-up combining marching, balance challenges, and gentle jogging to prepare for running activities

Children learn and practice one-leg balance using arm and eye techniques like flamingos

Partner activity where one child leads with direction changes while the other follows and copies