Monday, January 11, 2021

Theme: All the Activities

 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! 

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