IDEAL AGE: 2+

Join the Dinosaur March with Laurie Berkner!

Let's all be dinosaurs and march together! Along the way, we can stop and eat our food and stop and take a rest! ROAR!

Get moving with music! Songs with instructions to pause and listen for the next step challenge children to pay attention and help them practice controlling their bodies.

IDEAL AGE: 2+

Jump like a Chipmunk with Laurie Berkner

Laurie Berkner meets a very special chipmunk while stopping for gas. A jumping song with an environmental twist!

Acting out a song encourages children to actively engage with the lyrics, which builds listening skills. Using different action words requires cognitive flexibility—an important school and life skill!

IDEAL AGE: 3+

Family Animal Yoga

Stretch like a cat and lay flat like a butterfly. Relax together with animal yoga!

Yoga poses stretch your muscles and increase your range of motion. With regular practice, it will improve your flexibility, and keep your mind and body healthy!

IDEAL AGE: 2+

Mi Body/Mi Cuerpo

Sing along with CMOM educators to learn movements that help keep us healthy everyday!

Weight-bearing activities like walking or marching are great for building strong bones, while physical activities like jumping improves lung capacity, bone density, muscle and heart strength. Physical activity habits established in childhood last a lifetime!

IDEAL AGE: All

Sing and Dance with Flor Bromley

Move, dance, and sing along with CMOM partner Flor Bromley!

Moving and grooving wakes up our bodies and gets children ready to learn new things — like new words in English or Spanish. Talking to your child in the language you are most comfortable using helps set the foundation for future learning in any language!

IDEAL AGE: 3+

Living Room Olympics

Create your own Olympics celebration with household game challenges, homemade medals, and a closing ceremony in the comfort of your own home.

Celebrate being silly and develop a healthy understanding of friendly challenges, teamwork, and competition in the comfort of your home.

IDEAL AGE: All

Dance Charades with Elisa Monte Dance Company

Design a game of dance charades inspired by the video CMOM partner Elisa Monte Dance Company.

This activity supports key social skills like cooperating and co-planning, and exercises important brain skills like interpreting, analyzing, and creating movement.

IDEAL AGE: 3+

Tape It Down

Use tape on the floor to create fun and challenging obstacles!

As children are taking part in this kinesthetic activity, they are practicing and developing gross motor skills. Children are also counting and learning colors depending on the challenge, and developing important executive function skills like working memory when given tasks.

IDEAL AGE: All

Yanvalou: Traditional Haitian Dance

Join the Children’s Museum of Manhattan’s partner Kanu Dance Theater from the exhibition Lets Dance! to learn a traditional dance from Haiti called Yanvalou.

Observing, replicating and creating dance helps children understand dance as a legacy of expression in every culture.