Nursery World - Push and pull

Encourage children to explore the forces they can exert on objects - and each other - with these ideas from Jean Evans, in the first of four-part series on movement Moving with a friend

Moving with a friend

* Ask the children to sit in pairs on the floor facing each other with the palms of their hands touching. What happens when they/their partner push their hands forward? Repeat with the soles of their feet touching.

* Join hands and rock backwards and forwards, singing 'See-saw Margery Daw'. Talk about the pushing and pulling movements to make the rocking motion.

* Encourage pairs of children to sit on a see-saw, to talk about how it works and to take turns pushing on the ground with the feet.

* Sit back to back and create rocking movements by taking turns to push against one another.

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