10/20/2025
🧙♀️ Monster Moves Halloween Workout!
🕒 Duration:
20–30 minutes
🎯 Focus Areas:
Gross motor coordination, balance, core strength, motor planning, and endurance
🎃 Warm-Up: “Waking the Monsters” (5 minutes)
Goal: Get the body moving and heart rate up!
Zombie Marches – March with stiff arms and legs! (“Brains… brains…”)
👉 1 minute
Bat Wing Flaps – Flap arms up and down like flying bats 🦇
👉 1 minute
Witch Hat Tip-Toes – Walk on tiptoes with hands above head like a tall witch’s hat
👉 1 minute
Ghost Twists – Swing arms side to side while saying “Booooo!” 👻
👉 1 minute
Pumpkin Pick-Ups – Pretend to lift big pumpkins from the ground and place them on a shelf
👉 1 minute
🧟 Main Workout: “Haunted Obstacle Adventure!” (15–20 minutes)
Set up around the room or outdoors!
Spider Crawl 🕷️
Crawl on hands and feet through a “spider cave” (under a table, string web, or tunnel).
Focus: Core and shoulder strength.
Pumpkin Hop 🎃
Jump over small objects (pillows, cones, or paper pumpkins).
Focus: Leg strength, balance, coordination.
Witch’s Broom Balance 🧹
Walk across a balance beam, tape line, or “broomstick bridge” without falling into the “cauldron!”
Focus: Balance and core control.
Ghost Glide 👻
Slide side-to-side across the floor like a ghost floating — can use paper plates under feet for a smooth glide!
Focus: Lateral movement, hip control.
Monster Stomps 🦶
Big stomps around the room making monster noises — try on one foot, then the other!
Focus: Strength, coordination, single-leg control.
Mummy Wrap Roll 🩻
Roll on the floor like a mummy unrolling — try forward and backward rolls (if safe).
Focus: Vestibular input, core strength.
🍬 Cool Down: “Trick-or-Treat Stretch” (5 minutes)
Candy Cane Reach – Stretch arms up high like reaching for candy in the sky 🍭
Black Cat Stretch – On hands and knees, arch back and then drop belly (Cat-Cow stretch 🐈⬛)
Pumpkin Rocking Chair – Sit cross-legged, gently rock side to side
Ghost Breaths – Deep breaths in (“Whooooo…”) and out (“Boooooo…”) 👻
🧡 Bonus Ideas:
Play “Monster Freeze Dance”: play Halloween music and freeze like a spooky creature when it stops!
Use Halloween props (small pumpkins, webs, orange cones, stuffed bats, etc.) for motivation.
Offer “treat” rewards like stickers or stamps at the end! 🍬
