Before I had kids, a friend of mine told me that kids needed space to run, like dogs. I laughed at the time, thinking it was funny, if slightly offensive to children.
Now that I have three kids, I totally agree. 🙂
Whether it’s a super long walk in the neighborhood or a hour running around the playground, my kids need exercise. If they don’t get enough exercise, I notice that they seem to act fussier and argue more.
All of that pent up energy makes them restless until they get it out.
One of my favorite ways to help the get lots of great exercise is to take them to the local farms. There are three huge farms less than 30 minutes from our house that have all sorts of cool stuff for kids. I can take the kids for an afternoon and let them run, jump, climb and play for hours.
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One of the favorite farm activities is the in-ground slide. The slide goes through a long tunnel inside a hill. Once the kids get to the bottom, they pick up their sack and run all the way to the top of the hill to go again.
I love to see them having so much fun and love to see them outside getting so much fresh air and great exercise.
This fall, Quaker has teamed up with Fuel Up to Play 60 and the NFL for a fun campaign to get kids moving. The ‘For the Love of Play’ campaign was created to empower families and communities to get up and be more active, and to encourage children to enjoy 60 minutes of play each day.
Physical activity, along with good nutrition, is essential for a healthy lifestyle. It’s important for parents to set good examples for their kids and to make active play fun for their kids.
So join us for the ‘For the Love of Play’ campaign and get your family up and ready to play! Whether you prefer a game of tag in the back yard, a relay race with your kids’ friends or an organized team sport, family fun can be fun and easy. Do your part to get your kids loving active play!
My family loves to go on long bike rides and walks together!
We like to play soccer and go to the park together.
We love riding our bikes at the park!
We love to go to the pool.
We love to play together by practising soccer.
we love practicing baseball together!
We love to play cornhole as a family!
We all love to play the old fashioned croquet in the back yard.
My family loves to go on nature walks and ride bikes together!
We love to roller skate in the park and have picnics.
We like to play soccer in the back yard, I’m not very good at it but it gives the kids a good laugh.
We got to the park and play together, have water fights when it is warm enough, ride bikes and play ball
We go camping, and we hike and have family game night.
We love to walk our dog together!
we love to play basketball and Frisbee!!
We like to go to the park and watch action movies!
i like to play hide and seek..im good at it..
The favorite thing my family love to do is go hiking. Not a game or playing like other people but it is something fun that we all enjoy together 🙂 And a good breakfast and snacks are super important 🙂
we like to pay baseball and basketball and take bike rides togeher
We like to play hide and seek.
We like to take walks together with our dog!
Our favorite activity is playing basketball outside.
We like to get outside and play ball or go to the park and just run around.
My son is only one and a half, but he’s rapidly becoming obsessed with football and constantly wants to run around for touchdowns, so we have a lot of fun with that! We stay quite active just because he’s into exploring everything.
We like to play disc golf, go swimming and my grandkids love the bounce house.
We like to go to the playground to play.
Our family loves bike rides and playing at the park.
We love to play board games together.
We take a daily after dinner walk with the dog, as a family.
We love to go on bike rides and hikes!
we li to play catch and soccer together
We like to go mini golfing.
We take walks and hikes together as well as get outside and play ball.
we love going to the park
We love to play together by going bowling or playing mini golf or by roadtripping to the beach!
We like to go to the park as often as we can.
My family loves taking walks together, just so we can catch up. And we are learning to play lacrosse as a family too!
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I have 2 boys so, lots of sports. We love backyard football, baseball, really anything that includes a ball lol.
we love to go on walks or play music and dance together!
We love to go hiking at our State Park with our dogs!
We love to pay kickball outside when it is nice outside. If it rains we play board games.
We do a lot of bike riding together!
Our family plays together by sharing experiences together like movies, plays, musicals..etc
we love to go bowling