Are you looking for an exercise that’s fun for the entire family or classroom? This super-fun car racing laps exercise goes with my car racing laps dice printable.
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CAR RACING LAPS EXERCISE FOR KIDS DEMONSTRATED BY A 2 AND A HALF YEAR OLD – YOUTUBE VIDEO
My 2 and a half year old niece, Zoey, demonstrates the car racing laps exercise in this cute, energetic video! She absolutely loves running. So, I couldn’t wait to do this fun exercise with her. She definitely loved it! 🙂
Watch the Car Racing Laps Exercise for Kids Demonstrated by a 2 Year Old YouTube video!
CAR RACING LAPS EXERCISE FOR KIDS
The car racing laps exercise for kids is focused on speed, quickness, coordination, athletic ability, physical fitness, and cardio.
When performing the car racing laps exercise with kids, it’s important to keep these in mind:
- Start by helping kids walk around the circle or lap you’re using. This will help kids understand where they will be running. It will also shorten the length of time it takes for them to feel comfortable running faster.
- Add running. Once the first lap has been done at least once walking, you can add running. Older kids can go straight to running if a warmup has been done first. All ages can benefit from doing the walking lap once, though. If you’re not doing a warmup prior to the fitness game, all ages should do at least three rounds of walking before progressing to running. If your body needs more warmup, increase the rounds of walking before moving on to running.
- Increase arm movement. Once the first two parts of the exercise have been introduced, the arms can help to increase speed and effectiveness of the exercise.
- Focus on fun and controlled range of motion. This exercise is meant to be fun and to have as large a range of motion as possible while maintaining control.
- Remind kids about using good posture and engaging abdominals. Encourage kids to stand tall, draw their belly button into their spine, and keep good posture throughout the exercise. It can be tough to maintain good posture as speed increases, but it increases the effectiveness immensely. It will also help prevent injury. Engaging abdominals is especially important with exercises that incorporate speed and powerful movement.
- 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 CAR RACING LAPS EXERCISE FOR KIDS
When it’s apparent that your child is ready to progress to a more difficult version of the car racing laps exercise, here are some progressions to try while performing the exercise:
- Add bigger arm movements back and forth.
- Increase speed of running. You could time the length of each lap to motivate faster running.
- Increase the quickness of movement.
- Increase laps. 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.
HOW TO DO THE CAR RACING LAPS DICE FITNESS GAME
First download the FREE Car Racing Laps 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 1 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 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. She typically does at least one dice fitness game every time she’s at Grandma’s, which is often 4 times per week. 🙂
- Figure out where your racing lap is and where the starting line is. If needed, you can tape a lap on the floor or mark it out on the ground.
- Roll the dice.
- Have the child count the number of dots on the dice that the dice has landed on.
- Run that number of laps. For example, if the dice landed on 5, you will run 5 laps.
- 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. Often she will do all four dice fitness games on her shelves each time she sees me (often one or more times per week). I love that she has such a love for fitness at such a young age. ❤
FREE CAR RACING LAPS DICE PRINTABLE {FITNESS & COUNTING INSTANT DOWNLOAD}
You can get a free, instant download of my car racing laps dice and Differentiated Instruction Cube (photo cube) printables!
SIMPLE AND FUN FROG LEAP ACTIVITY FOR KIDS {FREE PRINTABLE}
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. My 2-year-old niece, Zoey, brings the frog dice out every day and does it on her own or will ask for a family member to do it with her. So adorable and an awesome way to get kids loving to move from an early age!
FISH SWIMMING EXERCISE TUTORIALS AND YOUTUBE VIDOES
Check out my blog post with YouTube videos and tutorials on how to do the swimming exercises and get the One Fish, Two Fish, FREE Fish Swimming Dice Printable {Dr. Seuss, Finding Nemo, Ocean, and Pet Themes Instant Download}!
BUNNY HOPS EXERCISE TUTORIALS AND YOUTUBE VIDOES
Check out my blog post with YouTube videos and tutorials on how to do the bunny hops exercise options and to get the Bunny Hops Exercise for Kids {Free Printable}!
BUTTERFLY FLAPS EXERCISE TUTORIAL AND YOUTUBE VIDEO
Check out my blog post with a YouTube video and tutorial on how to do the butterflyflaps exercise and to get the FREE Butterfly Flaps Dice Printable {Spring, Summer, and Nature Themes Instant Download}!
DUCK WALKS EXERCISE TUTORIAL AND YOUTUBE VIDEO
Check out my blog post with a YouTube video and tutorial on how to do the duck walks exercise and to get the FREE Duck Walks Dice Printable {Fitness & Counting Instant Download}!
HORSE GALLOPS EXERCISE TUTORIAL AND YOUTUBE VIDEO
Check out my blog post with a YouTube video and tutorial on how to do the horse gallops exercise and to get the FREE Horse Gallops Dice Printable {Fitness & Counting Instant Download}!
RECYCLING CRUSHES EXERCISE TUTORIAL AND YOUTUBE VIDEO
Check out my blog post with a YouTube video and tutorial on how to do the recycling crushes exercise and to get the FREE Recycling Crushes Dice Printable {Fitness & Counting Instant Download}!
DICE FITNESS GAMES
Here’s a Dice Fitness Game I created for kids and adults that uses regular dice!
HAVE FUN!
Have fun getting some cardio and speed work in with this car racing laps exercise for all ages.
Have you, your child(ren), or your students tried the recycling crushes exercise? What other exercises would you like to see?
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