Intention: Tuck hangs and tuck position. We hit tuck position a bunch this week, where gymnasts will hide their belly buttons as they pull their knees up to tuck. 

Magic: Hide and Seek. 

Kids love to discover hidden things! We lean into the excitement of exploring what’s inside, under, or hidden during this week of gymnastics. Gymnasts will flow between ‘finding’ things hidden under props and hiding different parts of their body to get in their gymnastics positions (like hiding their belly buttons to make their tuck position)!

Intention: Skill builder week. This week is strategically designed to practice the skills gymnasts have already been introduced to. Skill-builder lesson plans help build gymnasts' skill sets and allow coaches to challenge them even further. 

Magic: The Swamp!

Creepy crawlies, gators, lily pads, and snakes! This week is full of imagination and powerful movement for preschoolers.

This lesson plan is awesome for mid-school year when kids need the reps, but coaches need new magic to keep engagement high!

Intention: Handstands

Magic: “Hoopla”- wild, wacky, whimsical stations that work different parts of a preschool handstand.

Helloooo handstands! This week is dedicated to our most exciting way to be upside down-handstands! Handstand Hoopla is built to foster confidence and perseverance as your gymnasts practice and refine their handstand skills.

Intention: Balancing Skills

Magic: Wobbly week- Exploring preschool balance beam and uneven surfaces in the gym!

Think about the different surfaces we have in the gym — squishy mats, soft foam blocks, smooth bars, and hard balance beams.

We hit them all in this lesson plan! Wobbly Week is about working on balancing skills, but also exploring the textures in the gym. 

This lesson plan is a great way to practice practical balance skills, motor planning, and keeping preschool beam FUN! It includes a TON of engaging balance beam station ideas infused with preschool magic.

All children are artists, and this week is a celebration of all things COLORFUL!

In this plan, we also experiment with using one prop per child, starting with 'crayons' on rotation one, then hoops on rotation two.

Happy Hallo-Valentine-St.Patrick’s-Winter-Spring-Day!

This week smushes a bunch of holidays all together for some amazing gym giggles. Coaches can ‘stack’ skills onto these stations, making them more challenging for each of their gymnasts.

Gooey, cheesy goodness-every kid’s favorite food!

Mac and Cheese Week’s teaching intention is a straddle position, the same shape as a macaroni noodle. Your gymnasts will have a blast learning their ‘straddle-roni’s’ this week!

So much hand washing, but so much fun!

This week’s teaching intention is pike position — just how we sit in the tub when we scrub-a-dub!

This week is all about climbing, landing, and rolling your way to playground readiness!

Focusing on how we go up and down at the gym, your kids will love practicing for the playground in your safe, soft gym.

Your gymnasts will be buzzzzzzzing with excitement when they fly into the gym! This week is all about stingers, Queen bee's and, of course, sticking our landings in honey!

Bumblebee Week is a great plan to use toward the beginning of a session to reinforce new skills and encourage gymnasts to complete foundational skills independently.

This plan also comes with an entire list of songs to use for warm-up or when you buzzzz from one rotation to the other.

Tick Tock, Tick Tock! Filled with stations about learning a beginning lever, preschool gymnasts will use tons of ‘tick tock’ noises to help them along the way.

From kicking up to a handstand to leaving a footprint on a clock to ‘quiet like a mouse’ kicks, this week is full of tick tock-y surprises and upside down gymnastics!

Let's get LOUD with our landings!

This week is all about making a KABOOM sound with a two foot or ‘squeezy body’ landing. KABOOM week is all about making some powerful, strong and meaningful NOISE.

Your gymnasts will feel so powerful at the end of this week!

Bird week is all about having a blast while getting sticks for our nests, hatching some eggs, and flying down a low beam.

There are three warm-up options included with this lesson plan (in case you don’t want to put “The Chicken Dance” on repeat all week!)

Bird week compliments both KABOOM and Bumblebee week nicely!

ROARRRRR! ‘Lion lunge’ is a technique to teach your gymnasts what lunge position is and how to do it.

Gymnasts hit their lunge position, bring their hands up into fierce lion paws and ROAR!

From ‘stalking our prey’ on beam to playing with a big ‘ball of yarn’ in a handstand, this week is a ROARing good time!

Based on the beloved preschool board game, Candy Land, this week we are building your gymnast's 'sweet' skills!

From "Lolly- Lolly-POP!" handstands to gingerbread cartwheels, this week is the 'sweetest' one yet!

Two words: Grip. Strength.

We gotta get 'em strong, before we get 'em swinging. This week focuses on 'getting a grip' (HA!) Your gymnasts will be doing lots of squeeeeeeezing and 'monkeying around' on bars this week! 

Bottom line: This week is b-a-n-a-n-a-s! 

Point those feet! This lesson plan's focus is all about getting preschool gymnasts to point and flex those sweet lil' toesies!

Teaching pointed and flexed toes can be a challenge because its such a small movement.

In this lesson plan, we teach it using prickles, karate moves and "Toes on the Cob" (a fave Parent Tot station).

Cartwheels pay the bills, am I right? But they're also SUPER HARD for preschoolers.

In this lesson plan, coaches will work on getting their preschool gymnasts ready to cartwheel! We've got to get them moving sideways before flipping them over!

BAM! ZAP! In this lesson plan, your preschool gymnasts will build skills in a SUPER fun way!

Think cartwheels through a golden lasso and web-shooting arabesques. This week is like Kryptonite to boredom in the gym.

I know what you’re thinking… “We already do animal week at our gym!”

But hold up! This animal week is oh-so-different. With this lesson plan, each preschool gymnast brings their favorite ‘lovey’ animal to class to do gymnastics with together! From animal walks to squat-on stations, your gymnasts will love performing for and with their lovey.

Focus skill(s): Performing and Shaping

All of our preschool gymnastics lesson plans are created with three important elements…

✅ Child-Development For the Win!

Every Happy Gymnastics lesson plan is built on the foundations of early childhood education best practices. Each plan includes specialized instructions for ages 2, 3, 4, and 5-year-olds where needed to make it easy-breezy for your coaches to use in every class.

✅ Gorgeous, Full-Color Photos

We make our lesson plans easy for owners and directors to use — and for coaches of all backgrounds to implement. Rotations are easy to follow and directions are crystal clear because the photos show you the EXACT setup.

✅ Focused Intention + Magic

Every lesson is infused with our unique philosophy of Intention + Magic. This makes classes more engaging. This combo helps every coach teach in an age-appropriate way while letting coaches shine in their own style.

This week, we practice using the belly button as a guide for where our body goes.

The gymnasts will squeal with delight when you ask them, “Excuse me, but did you bring your belly button to class?”

Get ready to get dizzy: jump turns are the skill of focus.

Shiver Me Timbers! Dis week, we be becomin’ mean ol’ pirates!

Aye, da gymnasts will be lookin’ for land ho and walkin’ da plank while workin’ on skill development: everythin’ from side kicks to straddlin’ up to handstands.

Focus Skill: Skill development.

Get ready to hear every version of the phrase “TA DAAA!”

This week, gymnasts focus on two foot landings with a big ‘ta da’ finish. Several tricky two-foot landings are included to really get the gymnasts used to landing and stretching up by showing off their fabulous ‘ta da’s’!

This is an excellent week to allow your parent tot classes to bring cameras to class to snap photos of their little gymnast.

Honk, honk, beep, beep! Get ready for gymnastics with a transportation theme!

Gymnasts work on skills like “vroom, vroom, v-sits” and crab walking their car through a car wash. The kids will zoom, chugga, and beep their way toward solid gymnastics skills.

Focus Skill(s): Skill Development

Back it on up!

This week is all about moving backward. For the four and five-year-olds, this week we even run class backward! The kids will think it’s hilarious that they’re having a “backward class.”

Skill of Focus: Backward Movement

Yummy in my tummy!

Bring on the spaghetti, meatballs, and ice cream! This week we work on gymnastics skills with a focus on food. Between the donuts, hotdogs, and panel mat sandwiches, there is already a ton of gymnastics equipment that looks like the foods kids love.

Bon appetit!

Skill of Focus: Skill Development

Cartwheels can be a challenge to teach in preschool, but using visual cues like SILLY SOCKS makes it easier! 

Your preschoolers will have a blast working on all the elements of cartwheels while wearing mismatched socks (the stinkier, the better, I say ;)

Yee-haw! The gymnasts will do everything from heel drive buckin’ bronco kicks to ridin’ (pommel) horsey. 

There are several warmup choices to choose from for “Western Week.” Have a great time, ya’ll!

Skill of focus: Coordination

Boiiiiiiing! 

Spring Into Spring week focuses on nailing down some awesome springboard skills. Your kiddos will be jumping all over the place!

This pack includes:

• Mac and Cheese week

• Holiday Mash Up week

• Up and Down week

• Art week

• Scrub a dub week

  **Don’t miss the coloring pages that go with Pack 6 here!