{"id":23464,"date":"2016-05-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/?p=23464"},"modified":"2024-10-12T06:28:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T11:28:49","slug":"goldilocks-and-the-three-dinosaurs-gross-motor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/goldilocks-and-the-three-dinosaurs-gross-motor\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs Gross Motor"},"content":{"rendered":"

We totally love Mo Willems books at our house! They are some favorites for sure. I was excited about Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs: As Retold by Mo Willems<\/a>\"\"
\n for this month’s Virtual book Club book<\/a>. If you had not guessed, we love dinosaurs at our house and have for years.<\/p>\n

Today we have some fun gross motor activities you can use while you read the book or after you read the book.<\/p>\n

\"Goldilocks
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We always read the book first. This is fun just to read the book. I love the voices that you can make with the book. At the end of the book, I always ask what gross motor they might do for each part of the story. I already have my ideas written down but you never know you kids will come up with.<\/p>\n

We came up with several idea and some that my youngest came up with as well. I like to mix up the movements and have my girls moving different directions. I took some pictures of my youngest doing the activities but I love to join them in the gross motor. It is a lot more fun to get out and move with them than to just sit and watch.<\/p>\n

Dinosaurs:<\/strong> We did a lot of stomping with roars and made funny faces. We stomped around the room making some loud growls and roars. We also did some tip-toeing pretending to be the dinosaurs sneaking around.<\/p>\n

\"Goldilocks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Goldilocks:<\/strong> We skipped around the room. We did small knee skips and big knee skips.<\/p>\n

Ladder:<\/strong> We pretended to climb up the ladder. We counted up to 35 rungs on the ladder.<\/p>\n

\"Goldilocks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Bowl of Pudding:<\/strong> We did some small bowl stirring and some big bowl stirring. It was fun to pretend to be the dinosaur mixing and Goldilocks mixing.<\/p>\n

Chairs:<\/strong> We pretend sit down in a chair. This was fun to see how low we could sit down.<\/p>\n

\"Goldilocks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Bed:<\/strong> We pretending to try and jump up onto the bed. This was fun to see how high we could jump.<\/p>\n

Run:<\/strong> We did some running in place and running across the room to get away from the dinosaurs.<\/p>\n

Door:<\/strong> We pretended to be the door that Goldilocks was opening. We kept on leg firm in place and move the other leg in a half turn making the same motion as a door.<\/p>\n

\"Goldilocks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

These are really fun and kids love to get moving. We love doing gross motor with books!<\/p>\n

Check out these other gross motor and book activities:<\/p>\n