Physical development refers to advancements in motor skills and the growth and skill development of the body. Strategies to promote physical development include music and movement activities, stretching body parts, and indoor and outdoor games. Music and movement can involve dancing, performing actions to songs, and using rhythm sticks. Indoor games include board games, tossing balls, and following a leader, while outdoor games incorporate organized sports, races, hide-and-seek, and scavenger hunts.

1. Physical Development
NAUREEN FAISAL
SIPD

2. What is Physical Development
Physical development refers to the advancements and
refinements of motor skills, or, in other words, children’s
abilities to use and control their bodies. It relates to the
growth and skill development of the body, including the
brain, muscles, and senses.

3. Strategies to Promote Physical Development
 Music and movement activities
 Stretch out body parts
 Indoor games
 Outdoor games

4. Music and Movement Activities
 Musical marching parade (march/clap)
 Perform on story
 Action songs
 Tissue paper movements
 Statues and freeze game
 Rhythm sticks (walk music/jogging music/ bell music (stop and clap)

5. Stretch out Body Parts

6. Indoor Activities
 Board games
 Hot Potato
 Musical hide and seek (find music where it comes from)
 Build a tower
 Toss balls in the basket
 Imitate animals
 Traffic safety
 Be a snake
 Catching feathers
 Follow the leader
 Find and tag it
 Feed the lion

7. Outdoor Activities
 Organized sport
 Race/sage race
 Animal races ( hop like frog/crawl like lizard)
 Hide and seek
 Musical chairs
 Tug of war
 Running
 Kick the ball
 Scavenger hunt
 Making mud pies with dirt and old cooking utensils