Central Park Yoga Games

I walked down to Central park with the 4's/ School age class to do yoga with them after their snack.

We warmed up with arm circles 1st.

 The 1st game we played was called "Wind in the trees."  Half of the kiddos hold tree pose while the others ran around.

The "trees" had to try to stay very still as the wind was "blowing"

It was a little tricky, but we switched who was being a "tree" and who was being "the wind"

The next game we played was called "Yogi Says."   It's just like Simon Says."   Audrey got to be the 1'st "yogi"

Now its Arabella's turn

We played this game until everyone got a turn to be "yogi"

Yogi says roll around on the ground.

Yogi says "Flying Ghost Pose"   (This is from the Cosmic kids Halloween super yoga)

Yogi says..."Be a chicken!"

 The last game we tried was "The Wave"🌊

The object of the game is to have one person start a yoga move and then the person directly next to them quickly does the pose. This continues until everyone is doing the same pose. (Similar to doing "the wave at a sporting event")

 

Elsa says "Freeze!" Game with the 2's

The 2's friends really love taking deep breaths with the big breathing ball!

I encouraged everyone to start on the ground with our bodies as small as possible. Next, we stood up and stretched as the ball expanded.

After that, I told the friends that we are going to play a game with Elsa. I asked what kind of powers Elsa has, and a few kiddos said freezing, or freeze. 

I waved this wand around and listened for Elsa to tell us how to freeze. (I had a little basket with small toys that corresponded with yoga moves)

Elsa says....... "Freeze like a giraffe!"

Elsa says........ "Freeze like a dog!"

They had so much fun with this game....I think we will do it again!

 

Baby Yoga

Marlee was so excited when I brought the yoga mats to the room. She came right over and found one!

Eviana is sitting up on a mat!

I told the girls it was leg day...   I made up a little song while I moved their legs  🎵"Open and closed, open and closed, open and closed and back and forth." 

I had a few ideas typed up and Marlee was very interested in the paper.

Nice table top pose Eviana!

Thanks for playing today, friends!

 

Binoculars

We had such a great time using binoculars! I loved how excited the kiddos were to tell me what they were "eye spying!"  I was happily surprised that the binoculars held up the whole time!

They were so excited to try the binoculars!  

Norah said she saw a tree. I asked her to show me her best tree pose🌳   

Connor is sharing binoculars with Quinton  :-)

 

They ran all over the play yard looking around.

Charlie found a really neat rock!

Great tree pose Avery!

What do you see Kavan?

Stella and June are looking together!

It was really hot when I visited the toddlers, so we decided to explore our binoculars in the classroom.

They had so much fun looking through them!

Lots of "eye spying" going on.....

I brought "spy glasses" for the 4's friends.....

The large play structure quickly turned into a big pirate ship!

I heard one of the boys say "Hoist the sails!"

"Full speed ahead!"

Roman is looking over the edge of the "ship"

I said "Hey Zane, that's a really cool picture!"

Logan was pretty happy that 2 fit in his pockets  :-)