Moving learning is a way to involve and motivate children more actively in the learning process. And not only does exercise help to keep children active and alert in class, it also contributes to a better mastery of the teaching material.

In this article I zoom in on a number of play materials that can be used in education (and also at home or at the childminder or daycare center) to let children move and learn.

Ready set move

Train your body and mind at the same time with this fun cheerful exercise game from Learning Resources! Get your children (and their friends!) moving with the movement game of learning resources. The children stand on the colorful mats and roll the inflatable cubes to see what exercises they have to do and how many repetitions they have to do. This exercise game is very suitable for use in the classroom or BSO or with a birthday party. Keep as many as 25 kids active and engaged with this amazing game. This challenging game also helps develop visual processing and counting skills. Ideal for a class or a group of children. Also fun to use at a children’s party!

The advantages of the Ready set move

• Get kids excited about exercise
• The exercise game keeps children involved while learning at home, in the classroom or at the BSO
• Develop coordination and gross motor skills
• Encourage social skills
• Effective for stimulus seekers
• Stimulates and activates understimulated children

Muffik Sensory Puzzle Mats

The sensory puzzle mats are very practical to use in moving learning. This large set of play mats consists of a combination of both hard and soft surfaces and different textures. Ideal therapy material to introduce children to different tactile stimuli. But also great for home, childcare or school to let children move in a playful way and use the senses. The orthopaedic mats can be used both indoors and outdoors on a smooth surface and will provide hours of play and learning fun.

Game suggestions

• Make a course with the mats and use a dice, let children walk the number of eyes they throw over the mats.
• Lay down the mats loosely and roll a color dice, let the child stand on a mat of the color that the die indicates.
• Blind children and ask them to find the mat with the shells, by feeling.
• Put the mats apart, call a color and let the children run as fast as possible to a mat of the indicated color.

Letterspelmat

The letter game mat combines action and learning in a cheerful and fun game for children from about 5 years old. In a playful way, children learn letters, sounds and words. The edge of the mat contains images of sound-pure words that consist of 3 or 4 letters. In the middle are all the letters of the alphabet, but also double letters to make even more words. You can also make words in different ways. For example, cow can be spelled with a k. o. and e but also with a k. and an oe. The easiest way to play with this mat is to have a child point out a word from the edge. Another child must then make that word by standing with hands and feet on the right letters. But…. You can of course also walk the word, play in teams by making the word on the mat in pairs, you can also come up with longer words that are not on the edge. Of course, you can also translate the images on the border into English… In short, a lot is possible with this fun letter game mat that best suits the learning level of children from 5 years (group 2/3/4/5) of primary school.

Very nice for at home to practice extra but of course also very useful at school. Ideal to further shape the moving learning in the school from group 3. The letterspelmat is approved for children from 3 years but of course only children from 5-6 years really start working with letters.

Numeric mat

Play and learn at the same time? That is certainly possible with this cool number mat. Playfully practicing sums on the number game mat is a lot of fun to do. You make a sum on the mat with hands and feet. Play alone or with other children together. There are a lot of game possibilities with this number mat. So it is a kind of twister, simple sums, tables, everything is possible. Very nice for at home to practice extra but of course also very useful at school. Ideal to further shape the moving learning in the school from group 3.

The numerator mat is approved for children from 3 years but of course only children from 5-6 years really start working with numbers and sums.

Colorful moving dice 10 cm

Move playfully with this colorful dice! Beautiful foam blocks of dice of high quality, composed of color boxes (a primary or secondary color on both sides). Ideal to challenge children to learn the colors and to connect an exercise activity to each color.

Use the dice to playfully challenge your child to practice various movements. Great to use also for sports, therapy room or interplay. The dice has a transparent cover on each box, there you can insert a card with written or drawn movement activity. Can be used with the game suggestions with the sensory puzzle mats.

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