Children’s movement skills as a resource of health

Promote physical and mental health resources through a wide range of exercise and exercise options. In the (inter) national specialist discourse, movement is considered to be of fundamental importance for early childhood education and development processes. This is due to the results of the collaborative project "Movement in early childhood (BiK)"[1] underpins.

Ida chose the building blocks to play with today. She is 2 years old and likes going to kindergarten. In her game she is quickly distracted by the other children who built a climbing mountain. Ida watches very carefully how the others climb up and are happy when they have reached the top. Ida keeps pointing her fingers towards the climbing mountain. After a while she gets up and goes to the mountain. She looks at her feet, then at the first step of the climbing frame and then up. Ida starts to hold on to the rung with her hands and put her left foot firmly on. She pulls up close and manages to put her right foot next to the others. Ida is happy. But the other children climb even higher up to the mat. Ida moves on to the next step. Done. But it’s still not up. She turns to Margot and waves to her with her free hand. The teacher gets up, Ida quickly turns back to the climbing mountain and climbs another step. Now she has to take a big step. Again she turns to Margot, who is smiling behind her. Ida climbs onto the mat all by herself with big eyes. Once at the top, Ida hops around.