Let’s do some ABC exercise today in a playful and silly way that keeps kids moving! Are you wondering how to incorporate physical fitness into your preschooler’s day? Try these great alphabet exercises with your child, and they will learn while they are moving their bodies while practicing their ABCs! Today we are adding free printable ABC exercise cards that you can use as physical exercise at home or in daycare or preschool and Kindergarten classrooms.
Alphabet Exercises Make Physical Fitness Fun for Kids
It is important for all kids to move in order to stay healthy and fit and that is so much easier when it is a fun game. We love to make learning and moving fun here at Kids Activities Blog.
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How to Play the Alphabet Workout for Kids
- We started this alphabet exercise idea with an ABC puzzle on our floor (you could also use paper with the letters written on them or print our alphabet exercise cards below).
- We placed the puzzle pieces – ABC’s all over the room.
- We mixed them up, so that kids would have to find a letter and then walk or run between the letters. Starting with the letter A continuing through the letters in sequence until we got to the letter Z.
- Each letter was assigned a movement (see alphabet exercises list below) that started with that letter sound that could be done in the space around the found letter.
- (Optional) Try thinking of new exercises for each letter of the alphabet!
Printable Alphabet Exercise Cards
We thought it might be easier with printable alphabet cards and we created these brand new abc exercise printable pdf files that you can download for abc fitness fun!
–>Download & Print ABC exercises: Download Alphabet Exercise Cards
Alphabet Exercises – Letter Fun for Kids
A – Act like an animal
B – Bend
C – Chair pose
D – Dance
E – Elephant steps
F – Fly like a bird
G – Gallop
H – Hugs
I – Itsy bitsy steps
J – Jump
K – Kick
L – Leg lifts
M – March
N – Noisy steps
O – Open and shut arms
P – Pop up
Q -Quiet hops
R – Run
S -Side steps
T – Turns
U – Under – go under something nearby
V – Vibrate
W – Wiggle
X – X is the shape of jumping jacks
Y – Yoga (downward dog)
Z – Zig zag steps
We just went from letter to letter and had fun with it! You can also print our free PDF here and take this game with you wherever you go!
–>Download & Print ABC exercises: Download Alphabet Exercise Cards
More Active Kids Activities, Exercises & Fun
- Bosu balls aren’t just for adults. This bosu ball game is a fantastic way to help keep your little one active.
- Oh so many fun exercises for kids!
- Being inside can get boring quickly. Try this big list of indoor games!
- Did you know people who ride electric bikes get more exercise than those who ride traditional bikes?
- How can you teach your child to ride a bike with the training wheels off?
- Have fun with DIY outside board games using chalk.
- Sensory exercises for toddlers and more!
- Need some more activities to get kids moving?
- Make exercising exciting and unique with these super cool exercise dice for kids.
- Need to get your kids active and clean the house? Do it all at once by having the kids mop the floor with their socks!
- Make indoor exercise a blast with this fun indoor obstacle course.
- Have fun inside with this active indoor scavenger hunt.
- Did you know you could do listening exercises?
- Workout those fingers for handwriting practice.
- Have little kids? We have plenty of activities for babies too!
More Alphabet Fun from Kids Activities Blog
- Grab our abc chart of printable alphabet letters
- Alphabet pre writing activities for preschoolers & toddlers
- More ABC games kids can play!
- Alphabet worksheets have never been more fun.
- Our complete resource for alphabet learning.
- Check out these letter a crafts!
- See this easy printable abc chart!
- You’re going to love these awesome letter a crafts.
- Check out these 15 beautiful letter b crafts and activities!
- Cool, more letter c crafts!
- We have so many great letter D crafts and activities.
- I love these letter e crafts and activities.
- Take a look at these letter F crafts and activities.
- You’re going to adore these great letter g crafts and activities!
- Take a look at these letter H crafts.
- We have so many great letter I crafts.
- These letter J Crafts are so much fun.
- Looking for some kid-friendly letter k crafts? We go em!
- Love these letter L crafts!
- Magnificent letter m crafts just for you!
- Wow, these letter n crafts are awesome.
- Oh look, letter O crafts!
- The perfect letter p crafts and activities.
- These letter q crafts are great.
- We have so many great letter r crafts.
- Sweet, more letter s crafts!
- Terrific, so many fun letter t crafts.
- Unbelievably awesome letter u crafts.
- Vivid letter v crafts and activities.
- Want some wonderful letter w crafts?
- I love these 12 letter x crafts.
- We have 13 letter y crafts and activities too.
- Zingy letter z crafts for kids!
- We have 25 movement activities for your kids!
Did you enjoy the alphabet exercises with your child? Do you have more ideas on ho to get kids moving and physical fitness? What alphabet exercises can you come up with? We’d love to hear your feedback in the comments below!
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Great idea!
I incorporated most of this. I changed a few, as I wanted to associate the letters to phonics.
So I use “An Apple Ant” or “An Angry Ant”
“Bouncing Brown BasketBall”
Chair doesn’t work in phonics, so I used
“Cute Cleaning Cat”
Dance, Dance, Dance
Elegant Elephants Exercising (gotta be elegant, otherwise lots of broken dishes)
Fast Flying Fly (get the fly swatter ready)
Good Galloping Gorillas (gotta be good, to keep the kids under control)
etc…
I LOVE your 26 alphabet exercises. I created something similar… activity cards that combine movement with learning the alphabet. They are perfect for kiddos 3-7 yo of all abilities. Please check them out and let me know what you think. THANKS!!!
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LOVE this! Just made a big poster for my kiddos and the kiddos I watch after school. They’re going to love doing these exercises. Thanks for the inspiration. I changed a few, but plan to post it to my blog if that’s okay with you. I’ll definitely add a link to this so others can come here and see all the great things you do! Thanks again.
This is a good idea for an end of the year activity in preschool. We did an ABC list of foods during nutrition week. I like this exercise ABC activity list as well. Thank you.