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Interactive Hallways and Walkways
A low budget and quick way to create a more active school environment is to utilize underused spaces. Hallways can be transformed with some laminated shape cards or painters tape to encourage movement. Walkways can be spruced up with chalk or paint (if your school allows) to add interactive walkways.
Walkways
Work the Walls
Sticky Notes Are Everything*
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Use tape to help students visualize distances and also move creatively in the hall. Outside you could use chalk or paint to create designs on the ground for walking paths. There are often symbols that signify a spin, dots to hop on, or curved lines they "balance" on while walking. Students can even be involved in making new designs and courses throughout the year if chalk is used. I have seen students up to sixth grade using this and enjoying it!
Wall jumps: Similar to the sensory walk, but with dots on a wall instead. Use this in a corridor where it is ok for students to jump and tap the dots with their hand as they move from one place to another. There could be different colors for different "courses" or even high frequency words or math facts on them. This way when they touch the dots they could also be practicing literacy and math skills.
Sticky notes are versatile and a quick way to create scavenger hunts for math problems, vocabulary words, etc. They have infinite uses and can be very handy.
*While I love sticky notes for their ease of use, I would even more highly recommend using cardstock or a heavy weight paper that can be re-used. The life of sticky notes is not always as long as thicker materials.