Moon Landing Gross Motor Dice Printables
The anniversary of the moon landing is coming up and I thought it would be fun to have a gross motor activity to go with it! The space gross motor dice has always been one of our favorites.
So I thought why not have some fun with a moon themed set!
The Moon Landing Gross Motor Dice Printable is a great addition to the gross motor printables and moon printables on the site.
What is Gross Motor?
It is big movements using parts of the body like legs, arms, and torso. This can include running, jumping, moving arms or legs, crawling, and more!
Gross motor can be loads of fun!
Moon Landing Gross Motor Dice
I love the gross motor dice because it is a simple way for kids to do gross motor and have fun. I have made a lot of themes for these now. It allows for mixing them all together!
The set has 6 moon landing themes: rocket, astronaut, flag, footprints, moon, and command module. It is a fun way to tell the story of the moon landing with gross motor.
There are two sites of dice in the printables. We use the cube dice
The Moon Gross Motor Movements
There are six movements on the dice. And I always make sure to review what the movements are before we use the dice. Some movements they may already know like rocket and astronaut. Others we might have to decide just how to do them.
Astronaut: You pretend to float in space. You lay on your tummy and lift up your arms and legs.
Moon: You walk in the circle in the room.
Rocket: You jump up into the air.
Flag You do a motion of planting the flag using two hands. You can practice doing it in front, to the left and to the right. And easy way to work on cross-body movements.
Footprints: You make big stomping like movements like you want to leave big footprints.
Command Module: You drop down to the ground. You can jump up before you drop down if you want. Just make sure things are out of the way of where they will be dropping to the group.
After you are sure of the movements you can change up the dice a bit. You can add speed & directions and how many times they do the movement. You can get the number dice here.
If you don’t want to mess with the dice you can just have them go through the cards. It is fun to use the cube dice. My girls love throwing them in the air. And I like that the inserts seem the last longer than the foldable dice.
What you will find in the Moon Themed Gross Motor Dice printable
- 6 movements: rocket, astronaut, flag, footprints, moon, and command module
- Dice for different speeds: slow, fast, normal
- Two types: cube dice or make your own die
- 4 pages of printables
What you will find in the Moon Landing Gross Motor Set
This is a full set with gross motor dice, gross motor chart, rolling games, and gross motor task cards. Loads of fun ways to explore the moon landing themed movements that can work for many different settings.
What is in the Moon Landing Gross Motor Set
- Gross motor movement dice with folding and two cube dice options
- Speed dice with folding and two cube dice options
- Number dice with 1 to 12 options with folding and two cube dice options
- Moon Landing Gross Motor Movement Chart
- Moon Landing Gross Motor Spinning Mat
- Moon Landing Gross Motor Movement Task Cards with 6 cards total
- Rolling Moon Landing Gross Motor – Single Movement
- Rolling -Moon Landing Gross Motor – Two movements to match each die roll
- 22 pages
- Price: $3.00
Check out these other Moon activities
Phases of the Moon Weekly Packs has 6 grade level of packs with prek, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade and fourth grade. You have fun phases of the moon sequencing and activities.
Going to the Moon Easy Reader Book is a fun book about the Apollo 11 moon landing. It has the people that went, going to the moon and coming back to Earth.
Sequencing: The Moon Landing has the first moon landing in order of events. You have easy reader books, clip cards, order the moon phases and phases of the moon worksheets.
Phases of the Moon Fine Motor Mats Printable has all 8 phases of the moon with coloring, tracing, and dot marker. A great way to have learning a little science and some fine motor.
Check out all the fun Moon Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
Check out all the fun Space Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
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