Hi Gardeners.
Last time in garden class, we made Garden Activity Containers where we brainstormed different garden-themed movements, wrote them on small pieces of paper, and added them to a container.
Then, we chose one out at random and all did an exercise together to keep us warm, flowing, and active.
Here is the Great Big List of ALL the ideas that students came up with last week (totally random, in no particular order!):
10 arm vine stretches
40 bear hand shakes
30 growing branches
20 start poses
20 tree stars
1 minute windy tree pose
10 second stem massage
10 apple picks
5 water cycle arm circles
10 second strawberry dab
20 second avocado curl
2 minute tree pose
Bean stretch
10 sprouting squats
10 sunflower stretches
10 Earth spins
5 cycle circles
20 star poses
9 water-jacks
30 second sun pose
5 minute tree pose
40 flower poses
10 mushroom arm openings
20 time lapse squats
30 second flower "4" pose
5 plant part flows
10 plant part stretches
Dead Bug pose
10 fruit victory shakes
Giant arm circles (picking vegetables)
Scavenger Hunt! Find a plant part!
20 jumping jack-fruits
5 bud-flower poses
10 seconds buzzing bees
30 popcorn jumps
20 lemon stretches (lay down, touch toes)
20 banana peel stretches
20 seconds caterpillar arms
10 rabbit jumps
Bee bundle
1 minute zombie apple tree
20 avocado jumps
10 radish squats
10 water cycle shoulder circles
5 jumping lemons
2 minute banana stand
10 onion squats
10 seconds dead plant pose
10 seconds popcorn popping
20 trunk twists
1 minute pumpkin squat stretch
15 persimmon-pick jumps
30 bend over strawberry picks cross body
10 reaching vines
Straight vine stretch
30 seconds fruit flapping
Silly seed squat
Banana back bend
Broccoli side stretch
30 seconds gravity bend
10 seed sprouting squats
11 tummy rubs
10 slow tea orbits
30 venus fly trap jumping jacks
20 waterfall back bends
5 caterpillar crunches
20 cilantro leaf shakes
10 cactus twists
10 soil scoops
10 windmills
100 second sun pose
10 carrot jumps
20 seed squats
10 seconds caterpillar wiggle
15 spinach squats
12 turtle bends
Seal pose
5 grasshopper jumps
10 daffodil pushups
20 full oranges (giant arm circles)
25 chili pepper jumps
15 seconds soil rest
30 cross body lemon pick stretch
20 plum jumps
1 minute branches out sun pose
16 apple chomps
15 squirrel toes dig
30 grass waves in the wind
Scorpion pose
25 plum tree climbers
9 river jumps
25 cross arm strawberry picks bottom-top
10 star jumps
Draw a plant
20 second wide branches tree pose
1 minute paddle arms
10 worm bends
15 seconds cucumber stretch
20 kale jumps
25 pomegranate opposite arm/leg crunches
*Have fun doing these activities outside, inside, in the kitchen, in the garden, or wherever you can!
