Looking for fun Valentine’s Day gross motor activities? This game is a fun way to celebrate the holiday with kids!
What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than by chasing around some of your favorite friends?!
This simple Valentine’s Day gross motor game encourages developmental skills like motor planning, agility, coordination, self-regulation and direction following while practicing a little kindness as well!
Pair this fun Valentine Tag game with this cute set of kindness coloring sheets!
Valentine’s Day Gross Motor Activities: Valentine Tag
What You’ll Need:
-open play space
-small red ball or beanbag
-group of kids
What to Do:
Assign one person to be Cupid. This person is the tagger.
The rest of the kids try to stay away from Cupid to avoid being struck with his “love arrows”. Cupid uses the red ball to tag kids by touching them with the ball or by throwing it at them dodgeball style.
If a child is hit with Cupid’s arrow (the ball), he or she is frozen and must make a heart symbol with both hands.
To get unfrozen, another child must give a frozen child a compliment (you are fast, you are pretty, you have nice eyes, you are a good reader, etc).
The game ends when everyone is paralyzed by the stick of Cupid’s love arrow and no one is left to give compliments!
Simple and fun! A game the kids are sure to LOVE and the perfect Valentine’s day gross motor activities for preschoolers on up through elementary school! Our preschoolers liked this one so much that we tried it with our older kids too. Now it’s become one of our favorite Valentine ideas for 3rd graders and other elementary aged kids!
Check out some of our favorite Valentine Gross Motor Activities & Fine Motor Activities:
Sensory Valentines for Kids
Valentine’s Day Activities: Hearts and Arrows
Valentine Crafts for Kids: Shot Through the Heart
Valentine’s Day Paper Crafts for Kids
Fine Motor Heart Art
Jumping Hearts Gross Motor Jumping Game
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