Resources for Supporting Activities With Young Children

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Active for Life provides a wide range of resources for educators and parenting support providers, including lesson plans, active play resources, and printable PDF worksheets, on their website. 

Printables at https://activeforlife.com/resource/free-downloads/ include worksheets for:

·      Activities and games

·      Scavenger hunts

·      Daily Movement (needing little or no equipment)

Videos, posters, articles and a monthly newsletter are available at https://activeplay.ca/ The videos and posters are available in English, Arabic, Farsi, Inuktitut, Mi’kmaq, Ojibwe, Plains Cree, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, and Urdu.

Lesson Plans for 3-5 year-olds are located at https://activeforlife.com/resource/individual-lesson-plans/ for a variety of games to promote the movement skills of Balance, Locomotion, and Object Manipulation.

Lesson plan units at https://activeforlife.com/resource/lesson-plan-units/ for 3-5 year-olds are available for a 1-week summer camp and two 10-week preschool sessions. There is also a Lesson Plan Builder at https://activeforlife.com/build-your-own-lesson-plans/ where educators can draw from a range of activities to build their own customized Lesson Plans to work on specific movement skills for a targeted age range.