Description

The preschool activities session plans from the Hoop with Heart Programme are available for purchase individually as a PDF file.  The Hoop with Heart programme has 10 planned children’s physical activity sessions that early learning services can choose from.  Each session is about 30 minutes long, includes 3 games or activities based around a theme, and is conducted to a theme based music soundtrack.  The soundtracks are available as public playlists on Spotify premium.  The name of the corresponding Spotify playlist and a list of the songs in the playlist is included with each session plan.

Most of the sessions need to be conducted in a hall or outdoor setting, but there are three sessions which have been designed to also be suitable for a smaller indoor space.

The sessions are as follows:

1. Hoop Basics: Warm up, Waist hooping, Bubbles
2. Insects: Warm Up, Busy Bees (learning Weave hoop move), Butterflies
3. Animals: Warm Up, Down the Rabbit Hole, Frogs (suitable for indoors) 
4. Transport: Warm Up (Going for a Drive), Musical Cars, Dance Train
5. Sea: Warm Up, Crab Walking, Dolphin Diving
6. Sky: Warm Up, Earth and Sun (learn the Pass Around hoop move), Tāwhirimātea’s Bad Day
7. Fairytales: Warm Up, Musical Castle, Who’s Coming? (suitable for indoors)
8. Super Heroes: Warm Up, Super Hero shield, Secret Passage to the Batcave
9. Farmyard: Warm Up, Old McDonald had a Hoop, Morning on the Farm Hoop Story (suitable for indoors)
10. Circus: Warm Up, Lion Trick, Showman’s Flourish