Tunnels
Tunnels can be used encouraging the children to crawl through one side to the opposite end. You can uses tunnels and balance beams together creating an obstacle course.

Airball
Using giant floating airballs in yoga classes get toddlers up their feet, release the ball into the circle asking the parents to keep the ball from touching the ground using their hands. The toddlers stand in the centre and also help keeping the ball up too.

Blanket Rolls
Using a bigger blanket or event a mats, you can ask the toddler to lie at one end of the mat/blanket arms stretched out above their heads gently start to roll the toddler up the mat/blanket until the end is reached. The parent stands at the end and starts to gently unroll the toddler out from being wrapped. Repeat as many times as the toddler has patience for.

Mat Rides
Use a foam camping mat as it slides across the floor easily sit the toddler in the centre of the mat so their back can rest against the mat in case they topple. Picking up the mat at end behind the toddler gently start to pull the mat around the room, this is a great exercise for core and balance. Ensure the pace is kept steady and not done too fast so the toddler can keep their balance.

Pat-a-Cake
Sitting in a circle with parents holding toddlers hands, clap their hands together and then with the toddlers either side whilst singing the rhyme ‘Pat-a-Cake’. You can do this partnered parent and child or toddler to toddler, great to show social skills

Toga Game
This is a game to help with quiet time, and concentration. You can split the group into two. Using large hula hoops place them at either side of the mats and then place mini craft pompoms inside scattered about. Ask the children to take their socks off and encourage them to use their toes to pick up the pompoms. For younger children this may be easier with parents helping them. You can also scatter them outside of the hoop asking them to put them back in with their feet.

Yogi Says Game
This game is teacher led using some upbeat music use 3-4 poses that easy for your toddlers to mimic and remember from the session. Parents may need to help them adopt the stretch. Stop the music and say a yoga stretch for the toddlers to get into. Use this as a warm up game.

Story Time
This can be introduced from crawling and is a great creative tool to keep toddlers engagement. Choose a book you can freely adapt the poses to in this section and as reading get the children to act out the poses with the support of their parents.

Pedestal/Air cushions/balance boards
Use pedestals or/and balance cushions for balance. You can have stations around the room and focus the session on balance. The parent always assists the toddler onto any balancing prop. The pedestals position as close as they allow helping toddler to the stand parent is behind supporting around chest. Teacher holds feet to stand. Encourage toddlers arms out open aside them if good balance parent lightly hold. Parent helps toddler to balance cushion feet about 10cm apart parent supports around chest once child has balance established parent can support by holding arms then hands eventually lighter hold.

Sack jumping
This can be done parent and child always ensure parent stays with toddler to support on chest or arms. Child steps into sack eg one for potatoes (or sack race ones) ask them to hold it up to chest and jump. They can do a race supported by parents or on mats jumping.

Hoop Train
Parents form a line, holding a hula hoop each and toddlers are encouraged to crawl through the hoops. The parents can come to the end of the train to encourage them through.

Hoop Jumping
In crawling parents can assist by holding around chest helping jumping. Using the hoops place them in a bendy shaped line spaced about 10-15 cm apart and get the toddlers lined up in a queue with parents and jump hoop to hoop, parents will need to help them jump. Encourage in older toddlers to step in and out of the hoop to hoop.

Yoga Ball Game
Ensure safety is top priority and parents support staying with their toddlers. Toddlers can use hands and feet to pass the ball in the circle. The yoga ball can also be used to try out some of their favourite stretches for example handstand and crab using the peanut shaped balls.

Animal bag/masks
Using the animal bean bags or masks place them inside of a small bag and get the toddlers to pick out a mask or bean bag, say the name of the animal and demonstrate the pose, getting parents to help toddlers into it. Encourage the toddlers to copy from you themselves.

Resistance Bands
This can be done in partner work toddler and parent and many arm and leg stretches done with the bands. You can use the band as part of a warm up, getting the toddler to use their arms to stretch it into different shapes. Hook it around their feet position feet slightly apart as if sat in wide leg stretch and get them pulling it as if rowing a boast. Toddlers can sit in a circle everyone holds on to a piece of the opposite persons Lycra in a big rowing boat. Caution must be told to parents never to let the child directly have the band themselves this is parent led activity. Teachers ensure the bands are collected in after use. No bands over the top half a child body.

Parachute
The parachute can be used for lots of activities and you can also use your imagination to include them in others. Using the balls on top to music, the big floating ball or animals or scarves on top. Playing peekaboo, ring a roses are all favourites too.

Bean bag balance
In wobbly walking and walking sessions using the bean bags you ask the toddlers to place them upon their heads and they can balance it whilst walking from one end of the room to the other whilst walking. It can be done in crawling group ask the toddlers to sit.

Bean Bag Throwing
This can be used with the hula hoops from the crawling to walking sessions. Working in partners put the hoop in between the toddlers giving them a bean bag to share or each. Let them throw the bean bag into the hoop. Helps with coordination.

Butterfly Skittles
Using the big giant ball or using a medium sized ball or yoga ball, scatter parent with toddler around the room sitting in butterfly position. Choose a toddler to come to the front and roll the ball towards the group trying to ‘hit’ as many butterfly skittles as they can. The idea of the game is to get everyone down and have a winner. Once the butterfly is hit they fall sideways or backwards taking the toddler with them.

Balance Beam

Using the balance bean on top of the mats, parents walk with toddlers with their hands either around their torso, or if they are walking aided, holding their hands and encourage them to ‘tight rope’ walk on the bean, placing one foot in front of the other. This helps with co-ordination, balance, and awareness of foot placement for walking.

Pretzels

These are a series of cards which can be used as prompts during the sessions. Ask the children to pic a card and ask them to copy the pose of the card. There are a range of poses, some need to be supported by parent and some only for yogance.

Stepping Stones

Using yoga blocks, felt squares or cushions these should be laid out about 10cm apart as if mimicking stepping stones. Parents should help toddlers by holding arms of hands behind them to guide them to step block to block. Younger toddlers encourage coordinating one foot in front of other but don’t rush them over. The blocks can be used individually for balancing upon or upon the child’s feet whilst they are lay on their back.

Block Balancing

The toddler upon their backs lay in front of the parent ask the child to raise their legs, feet together, facing the ceiling. Using the yoga block, place it upon the child’s feet asking them to stay as still as a tree, count for 3-5 seconds letting the block sit upon the feet. This can be done with the child sitting spine to parents chest or child and parent facing and balance the block upon the parent and the child’s head again balancing for 3-5 seconds. Toddlers can also practice tree stork superman upon the block and simple mountain pose whilst parents support.