🤸 Animal Walk Freeze
Camina como Animal y Congélate
🤸 Motor Skills
Emergency
PE.K.1WL.K.1
Objective: Move like animals and freeze on command, naming each animal in Spanish.
🧺 Materials
None needed — just the two of you.
📋 Instructions (parent)
- Call out an animal in Spanish, like 'gato', and move like it.
- When you say 'congélate', everyone freezes still.
- Pick a new animal and play again.
➕ Extension ideas
- Let your child pick the animals.
- Make the animal sound while you move.
🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish
Español
Vamos a movernos como animales. ¡Camina como un gato! Y cuando diga congélate, no te muevas.
💬 Conversation prompts
- ¿Cómo se mueve el perro?
- ¿Qué sonido hace el gato?
- ¿Cuál animal quieres ser ahora?
🔑 Vocabulary
- gato — cat
- perro — dog
- rana — frog
- congélate — freeze
- saltar — to jump
Other ways to do it
⚡ 5-minute version
Do just two animals and freeze.
🚗 Car version
Make animal sounds and freeze your hands.
😴 No-energy version
Move like a slow turtle, then freeze sitting down.
🎯 California standards covered
| PE.K.1 | Moving My Body “I can run, jump, hop, and balance while I move my body.” |
| WL.K.1 | Exploring Spanish “I can say hello, count, and name colors in Spanish.” |