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Family and Friend Fitness Outdoor Scavenger Hunt
Create an Outdoor Scavenger Hunt by making a list or map out in a drawing 5 or more places. You may write a challenge at each place. Examples: Apartment Stairs: Walk up and down (carefully) 3 times. Driveway: Make 3 baskets from anywhere in the hoop or garbage cans....
Chalk Scavenger Hunt
Be creative and make a scavenger hunt with 10 boxes or 10 things that you drew with your chalk. Number the boxes 1-10. Give you partner clues as to where they can find these boxes by drawing clues with your chalk. Have fun with this and make your partner do silly...
Partner Two Square
With your chalk, draw a two square game with boxes to mark the boundaries. See how many consecutive times you can hit a ball back and forth with your partner without the ball touching the chalk lines.
Crazy Shapes
With your chalk, see how many crazy shapes you can make. After you do that, come up with a way to move or a game to touch all the pieces with out touching the ground.
Chalk Games
Create a game on the sidewalk that you would be able to use with another piece of equipment such as a nerf ball.
Draw and Dance
Create and draw some dance steps with your chalk, put the music CD on and start moving it!!!!
Steps and Chores
Make a chart or list of family chores with a space to write steps taken while doing the chores. Family members wear their pedometers doing their chores and log the steps. Discuss with your family which chores are the most active.
Step Family Challenge
Wear the pedometer for a whole day and log how many steps that you accumulate. Give the pedometer to a family member or friend for the next day and have them log their steps. On the next two days, see who can increase their number of steps more, you or your family...
Step to School
Find a safe route to school with family or friends free from heavy traffic. How many steps does it take to get to school?
Steps at School
Wear your pedometers at school during recess and try to get as many steps as possible! Wear your pedometer all day at school and see how many steps you log in a whole day.