Do you want a fun way for your kids, students, or relatives to be active? This lamb jumps exercise goes with my lamb jumps dice printable. It’s an enjoyable exercise for kids, families, and groups to do together.
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LAMB JUMPS EXERCISE FOR KIDS – YOUTUBE VIDEO
My 3-year-old niece, Zoey, demonstrates the lamb jumps exercise with me in this video. Zoey wanted to keep doing this exercise for a long time when we played the lamb jumps dice printable game!
Watch or work out to the Lamb Jumps Exercise for Kids YouTube video!
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LAMB JUMPS EXERCISE
The lamb jumps exercise for kids is focused on full-body movement especially lower body, coordination, posture, core strength, strength, control, jumping, explosiveness, and physical fitness.
When performing the lamb jumps exercise with kids, it’s important to keep these in mind:
- Start with jumping. Have the child squat down like he or she is sitting back into a chair. Then have the child jump into the air. For this version, how the child jumps isn’t as important as long as the child’s posture is looking safe and the landings are fairly soft.
- Add touching the ground lightly with hands. The child will reach hands toward the ground after landing and bending legs. You can help the child place hands and arms to help him or her feel the hand and arms placement as well as understand the exercise better.
- Add arms and body movement together. Have the child do steps 1 and 2 together.
- Start on all fours with balls of the feet on the ground and elbows slightly soft (more advanced). Bend knees and arms and push through the floor to launch into the air. The jump won’t be very big on this version, but it takes a lot more control and strength to use the arms and legs together to launch into the air.
- Focus on fun and controlled range of motion. This exercise is meant to be fun and to do as large of movements as much as possible while maintaining control and landing softly.
- Remind kids about using good posture and engaging abdominals. Encourage kids to make themselves as tall as possible by bringing their head closer to the ceiling and pulling their belly button in toward the back wall (drawing their belly button into their spine), and keep good posture throughout the exercise. It can be tough to maintain good posture as they get tired, but good posture increases the effectiveness immensely. It will also help prevent injury.
- Encourage kids to keep trying. As long as they are trying and moving, encourage them! This will help them gain confidence. Then you can begin to refine the movement as confidence increases.
PROGRESSIONS OF THE LAMB JUMPS EXERCISE FOR KIDS
When it’s apparent that your child is ready to progress to a more difficult version of the lamb jumps exercise, here are some progressions to try while performing the exercise:
- Increase jump height.
- Increase quickness.
- Increase repetitions. For older kids and adults, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division can be done with the dice to increase repetitions, focus on educational skills, and make the game more interesting.
- Progress from initial version to more advanced version of the exercise.
- Add progressions 1 through 3 to the more advanced exercise version.
HOW TO DO THE LAMB JUMPS DICE FITNESS GAME
First download the free Lamb Jumps Dice Printable below. Then print out and tape or glue together the dice printable or print out and put the dice printable inserts in the differentiated instruction cube/photo cube.
This fitness game can be done with one or more kids of all ages and adults. If two or more are playing this fitness game, you can alternate rolling the dice and doing the exercise individually, or you can alternate who rolls the dice and everyone playing can do the exercise each time.
My niece, Zoey, loves to do the exercise together or to alternate when doing the exercise {Auntie Chrissy (me), Grandma (my mom), and then Zoey}! She will also take out the dice and play it on her own if she’s at Grandma’s (my mom and dad’s) and I’m not there.
- Figure out where you will do the dice fitness game.
- Roll the dice.
- Have the child count the number of dots on the dice that the dice has landed on.
- Do lamb jumps for that number of times. For example, if the dice landed on 5, you will do a lamb jump 5 times.
- Continue this game for a specific number of rounds, length of time, or other specified amount. You can also do this dice fitness game for the specified duration, followed by one or more of my other dice fitness games that you can find below.
If I’m with Zoey, she usually likes to do multiple dice fitness games together! We typically have four fitness dice available on her shelves at all times. We use the differentiated instruction cubes/photo cubes.
FREE LAMB JUMPS DICE PRINTABLE {FITNESS & COUNTING INSTANT DOWNLOAD}
You can get a free, instant download of my Lamb Jumps Dice and Differentiated Instruction Cube (photo cube) printables!
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Check out my “Simple and Fun Frog Leap Activity for Kids” post for another fun fitness for kids printable plus ideas of activity trays you can easily prepare with these printables. Since she was 2 years old, my niece, Zoey, has brought out a dice printable to do on her own or with a family member. So adorable and an awesome way to get kids loving to move from an early age. This was the first dice printable Zoey used!
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Here’s a Dice Fitness Game I created for kids and adults that uses regular dice!
MAKING FITNESS FUN!
If your child enjoys jumping, he or she will really enjoy this exercise. Zoey has a lot of fun jumping and loved it!
This is a full-body exercise that uses a big range of movement.
Have you, your child(ren), or your students tried the lamb jumps exercise? What other exercises or types of exercises would you like tutorials on?
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