Fitness Cards - Fun Family Fitness Session

You will require a pack of playing cards; each suit in the deck relates to an activity. Suitable for both younger and older children.

Hearts = Jumping Air Squats (easier air squats)
Clubs = Down ups
Diamonds = Burpees
Spades = Heel Kicks

Shuffle the pack of cards and pull one out. For example, if you pull out the 6th of Diamonds, the children must complete 6 Burpees. You may wish to limit the number of cards from each deck. Attempting to complete the entire deck would be much too challenging for one child!

Extension: Pair up or group children, increase the number of cards, and share the work between them. For example, if 9 hearts are pulled out, they complete 9 jumping air squats between them. This way, it may be possible to get through more of the pack, depending on how many children you have.

Things to consider:

You could split the decks in order to give younger children more of the lower-numbered cards and older children more of the higher-numbered cards.
Incorporate rest time e.g. allow them to have 3 ‘time outs’ in which they can choose to rest, but once they have used them up they are gone!
Can they play this again, suggesting different activities for each suit?