If you're having to walk the same route everyday at the moment (because it's near to your house) it can start to get a bit boring and it can get harder and harder to get kids out! Here are some ideas to add in to your walk:
Draw a sketch while you're on your walk. Take a little pad of paper with you and each day stop in a different place to draw for a few minutes. Drawing's not just about copying how something looks exactly. In my opinion, it doesn't matter so much what the drawing looks like. Spending time drawing is a way of making us look more closely.
Take a photograph a day on every walk and start a photo journal. You can take lots of photographs as you walk and then pick the best one from the day to add to a photo journal. If you wanted to, you could write something about the photograph or your day alongside it.
Here are some ideas for what you or your children could set out to draw or photograph while walking: details of buildings that you pass, people or animals that you see walking past, plants that are growing up out of pavements, the most unusual thing that you see or look for something that's blue or red or yellow as you walk.
Another idea is to have a go at Mindful Walking, either by yourself or with your kids. Stop Breathe & Think blog have a post about mindful walking here.
Online Resources:
NHS have some great work out at home videos that you can find here.
And there are some more NHS activities which can be adapted for being at home here.
And the one everyone's talking about: PE with Joe Wicks is on YouTube
Draw a sketch while you're on your walk. Take a little pad of paper with you and each day stop in a different place to draw for a few minutes. Drawing's not just about copying how something looks exactly. In my opinion, it doesn't matter so much what the drawing looks like. Spending time drawing is a way of making us look more closely.
Take a photograph a day on every walk and start a photo journal. You can take lots of photographs as you walk and then pick the best one from the day to add to a photo journal. If you wanted to, you could write something about the photograph or your day alongside it.
Here are some ideas for what you or your children could set out to draw or photograph while walking: details of buildings that you pass, people or animals that you see walking past, plants that are growing up out of pavements, the most unusual thing that you see or look for something that's blue or red or yellow as you walk.
Another idea is to have a go at Mindful Walking, either by yourself or with your kids. Stop Breathe & Think blog have a post about mindful walking here.
Online Resources:
NHS have some great work out at home videos that you can find here.
And there are some more NHS activities which can be adapted for being at home here.
And the one everyone's talking about: PE with Joe Wicks is on YouTube