🤸 Animal Move Freeze
Animales que se congelan
🤸 Motor Skills
Emergency
PE.K.1WL.K.1
✨ AI-generated
Objective: Child practices locomotor and balance movements by imitating animals and freezing on cue.
🧺 Materials
None needed — just the two of you.
📋 Instructions (parent)
- Tell your child to listen for an animal name in Spanish and move like that animal.
- Call out one animal at a time (rana=jump, oso=crawl, flamenco=balance on one foot, serpiente=slither, conejo=hop).
- Shout '¡Congélate!' (freeze!) and have the child hold their pose still for a few seconds.
- Let the child pick and call out the next animal so they lead too.
- End with a slow, calm animal (like a sleepy cat stretching) to wind down.
➕ Extension ideas
- Add counting: hold each freeze while counting to five in Spanish (uno, dos, tres...).
- Have the child draw their favorite animal pose afterward to connect to their art interest.
🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish
Español
¡Vamos a movernos como animales! Cuando yo diga un animal, tú te mueves como él, y cuando diga '¡congélate!', te quedas quietecito como una estatua. ¿Listo? ¡Salta como una rana!
💬 Conversation prompts
- ¿Cómo se mueve este animal?
- ¿Qué animal quieres ser ahora?
- ¿Qué sonido hace ese animal?
- ¿Puedes balancearte en un pie como el flamenco?
- ¿Cuál animal fue tu favorito?
🔑 Vocabulary
- rana — frog
- oso — bear
- flamenco — flamingo
- serpiente — snake
- conejo — rabbit
- salta — jump
- congélate — freeze
- quietecito — very still
Other ways to do it
⚡ 5-minute version
Pick just three animals and do one quick round with freezes.
🚗 Car version
Play the animal game with hands and faces only while seated, freezing arms and expressions.
😴 No-energy version
Child stays seated and only moves arms or makes the animal sounds in Spanish on cue.
🎯 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.” |