Family ideas for living an active lifestyle

Looking for ideas on how to fit in more activity into your family day?

Depending on the age of your child, whether they’re 12 months or nearly starting school, there are different ways of getting in a little more activity, that could be big movements or little. Some of them you may even do without realising!

0-12-months

Using your hands:

• Touching soft toys and books
• Handling objects
• Passing from hand to hand
• Clapping, pointing, waving
• Learning to build a tower of blocks
• Pull-a-long toys
• Baby massage
• Try the Born to Move app

Keeping moving:

• Floor play like tummy time, rolling over, reaching for toys
• Practicing sitting, standing, crawling, cruising furniture

Music and movement:

• Playing an instrument like shakers, tambourine, drum pad
• Singing and nursery rhymes
• Moving to music and/or dancing

Games:

• Peak a boo
• Pat-a-cake
• Talking- conversation turn taking
• Rolling ball back and forth
• This little piggy

Sporty activities:

• Playing with balls
• Swimming
• Tiny Happy People find an activity

Imaginative play: 

• Hide and seek
• Games to encourage brain development and imagination

Out and about:

• Fresh air walks in buggy or pram around parks, coast, woods and forest, outside play