• zoom like a plane
• fly like an eagle
• stretch like a cat
• strut like a rooster
• leap like a frog
• run like a cheetah
• trek through the jungle
• move like lightning
• move around
• through
• up
• down
• fast
• slow

Equipment: Action storybook

Procedure: Choose your favorite action storybook and copy the actions and expressions of the characters as you read the story out loud. If you're playing with a friend, take turns reading and acting!

Airplane

1 or more players

Procedure: Put out your arms and move around like an airplane…take off, fly, zoom, land.

Cape Capers

2 or more players

Equipment: For each player-small blanket, towel or cloth scrap for cape

Procedure: Using a small blanket or bath towel, show put it over your shoulders like a cape, holding the ends of the blanket or towel with your hands outstretched. Play make believe together as you say this rhyme…

Flap your wings like an eagle in the sky…Then soar like an airplane flying high…Float like a ghost and say "Woooo!" Then drift like a giant cloud in a sky of blue…Become a super hero, dash and dart about.
"I'm coming to the rescue!" is what you shout.

* Adapted from FITWIC Vermont Resources