Squat and Plant Challenge

💡Skill: Moving your body helps grow strong muscles!

Description

When plants have soil, air, water, and sunlight, they can grow big and strong! Let’s grow stronger by pretending to plant seeds!

Steps

Here’s how to explain this activity to your child:

• Let’s stand with our arms at our sides or out in front of us.

• Let’s bend our knees and touch the ground, like we’re planting seeds.

• Now, let’s jump up high to “touch” the Sun!

• Let’s try to plant 10 seeds in all!

Extend the Learning 

Here are a few fun activities to help grow your child’s love of nature! 

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Words to Use 

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• Plant – A living thing like a tree or a flower
  

• Seed – It comes from a plant and can grow into a new plant