The Development of Movement in Stages
Virtual Lab School: Infant and Toddler Physical Development
The Timeline of Physical Development
HAPPE: Toddlers in Physical Play
Motor Delays:
AAP Information about Motor Delays
Warning Signs of a Physical Delay
Motor Delay: Early Identification and Evaluation
Music and Movement:
Music and Movement for Young Children’s Healthy Development
Beyond Twinkle Twinkle: Using Music with Infants and Toddlers
Toddler Fingerplays and Action Rhymes
Yoga for Kids Resources
According to Yoga Kids (www.yogakids.com), sharing yoga with children helps them to:
- Feel loving and loved
- Get in touch with themselves and learn to trust their instincts
- Learn about their bodies
- Acknowledge and nurture their special gifts and strengths
- Experience fun, playfulness and collaboration with others in the learning process
- Open up to change, ask questions and find their own answers
- Uncover their innate sense of joy
- Know that there is a quiet and still place for them as they face the challenges of growing up
- Fill up with vibrant and vital energy
Here are some great resources about the practice of yoga with children as well as the many benefits that yoga offers to children:
DVDs available on the YogaKids website (http://yogakids.com/):
- “Kids Yoga Bedtime Rhymes” by Jeff Maier
- “Yoga for Youngster” by Kat Randall
- “Imaginations – Fun Relaxation Stories and Meditations for Kids” by Carolyn Clarke
- “Imaginations 2” (follow up to the above) by Carolyn Clarke
Instructional Cards, Meditations and Books:
- “Creative Yoga Games for Kids” – a set of 48 cards by Edna Reinhardt
- “Relax Kids – The Wishing Star” – 52 meditations for children; by Marneta Viegas
- “Relax Kids – Aladdin’s Magic Carpet” – (follow up to above); by Marneta Viegas
- “Yoga Games for Children” by Danielle Bersma & Marjoke Visscher
- “Storytime Yoga” by Sydney Solis
- “Little Yoga” – a Toddler’s First Book of Yoga; by Rebecca Whitford & Martina Selway
- “The ABCs of Yoga for Kids” by Teresa Anne Power
- “Babar’s Yoga for Elephants”; an original Laurent De Bruhoff book
Yoga Journal: Why Kids Need Yoga
Top 10 Benefits of Yoga for Children
Gak Recipe:
Ingredients:
Borax
2 bowls 
White glue
Measuring cup
Measuring and stirring spoons
Hot water
Cold water
Clean hands
STEP 1:
You need 1 bowl and 1 spoon
STEP 2:
Pour 2 cups of glue into a measuring cup and pour it into the bowl
STEP 3:
Pour 1 ½ cups of cold water into a measuring cup and pour it into the bowl
STEP 4:
Mix it up with your spoon
STEP 5:
You need 1 bowl and 1 spoon
STEP 6:
Pour 1 tablespoon of Borax into a measuring spoon and pour it into the bowl
STEP 7:
Pour 1 cup of hot water into a measuring cup and pour it into the bowl
STEP 8:
Mix it up with your spoon
STEP 9:
Pour this bowl into the other bowl and mix it up with your spoon.
STEP 10:
Then mix it up with your hands!
Additional Readings
Bronson, M.B. (1995). The right stuff for children birth to 8: Selecting play materials to support development. Washington, D.C.: NAEYC.
Cranley Gallagher, K. (2005, July). Brain research and early childhood development – A primer for developmentally appropriate practice. Young Children, 60(4), 12-20.
Thompson, P.M. & Giedd, J.N. (2000). Growth patterns in the developing brain. Nature, 404, 190-192.