Printable movement cards

Four sets. Print them, cut them out, and pull one at random. Two minutes of this resets a body that cannot sit still — and the sitting still afterwards comes free.

Action cards. Hop, waddle, slither. Big, silly, whole-body movements — the sillier the better.

Animal yoga. Slow, and with the breath. Nothing should ever hurt — a stretch is a pull, never a pain. Good for winding down, not up.

Obstacle course. Build it from what is in the room: cushions to jump, a rope on the floor to balance along, a table to crawl under. No stopwatch. This is about moving, not winning.

Dance & freeze. Music on — move like the animal. Music off — freeze completely still.

And nobody is ever "out". Freeze games normally eliminate children one at a time, which means the child who most needs to move is the first one sent to sit down. Not here. If you wobble during a freeze, you laugh, and you carry on.