Gross Motor Movement Game

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 Materials: Prep:
Move Like an Animal Cards Print and cut the Move Like an
Optional: Animal Cards
• Square Tissue Box Optional:
• Make a Move Like an Animal Cube.
See the directions on the next
page.
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1. Print and cut apart the animal movement cards. Each cube needs 6
animals.
2. Glue or tape each animal card onto a different side of a square
tissue box to make your cube.
3. Optional: Wrap the tissue box with wrapping paper first!

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 Directions
Have your students choose an animal movement card (or toss the cube) and
act out the animal that they get!

Extension Activities
1. Pair this activity with the book Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell. Click HERE to
see more activities inspired by this book!
2. Print out two sets of the animal movement cards and use them to play
Memory or Go Fish.
3. Learn the sign for each animal in American Sign Language.
4. Have your students name the beginning letter and sound of each animal’s
name.
5. Choose two animals. Have your students talk about how they are alike and
how they are different. Make a Venn diagram together to show how to
compare two things.
6. Put these animal movement cards in a sensory bin. Great sensory bin fillers
include rice, beans, dried pasta, shredded paper, or colorful pom poms.
7. Have students sort these animals into different groups. Some examples
include: number of legs, numbers of arms, where they live, how they move,
etc.
8. Use the black/white version of the animal movement cards and have your
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students color them.

 STOMP STRETCH
like an elephant like a giraffe

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ROAR SWING
like a lion like a monkey

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 GALLOP BALANCE
like a zebra like a flamingo

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CHOMP CLIMB
like a crocodile like a koala

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SLITHER HOP
like a snake like a frog

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GROWL FLY
like a bear like a parrot

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 STOMP STRETCH
like an elephant like a giraffe

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ROAR SWING
like a lion like a monkey

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 GALLOP BALANCE
like a zebra like a flamingo

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CHOMP CLIMB
like a crocodile like a koala

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SLITHER HOP
like a snake like a frog

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GROWL FLY
like a bear like a parrot

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