Children's Health and Well-being: Exercise Activities and Plans

This report delves into the critical importance of children's health and well-being, emphasizing the benefits of exercise for physical and mental development. It highlights how exercise supports organ development, improves lung capacity, aids in sleep and eating patterns, and strengthens bones, fostering socialization. The report discusses the risks associated with a sedentary lifestyle and offers practical activity plans tailored to different age groups, from infants to older children, ensuring age-appropriate engagement. Furthermore, it provides detailed activity planners including ratios, equipment, and expected outcomes, offering guidance for parents and caregivers to promote children's fitness and overall health. The report underscores the need for parents to be attentive and proactive in promoting healthy habits, ensuring their children grow up strong and resilient, thereby improving their quality of life.

CHILDREN’S HEALTH
AND WELL BEING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Benefits of exercise for children physical health and general well being...................................1
Plan 3 activities for children to exercise which cover different age ranges and explaining how
they are age appropriate..............................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Health and well being of a child is very crucial, which comes from perfect exercise that
helps them to grow in healthier manner. Children should be given an opportunity to play and
exercise in their young age as possible to ensure their health development in correct manner.
Present study will be based on children health & well being by explaining several types
of benefits of exercise as it helps to develop the organs of body, lung capacity is improved,
supports the development of bones etc. are going to be discussed (Bradshaw, ed., 2016).
Furthermore, it will also present three plan activities for children well growing of the
children, who covers different age range and the age appropriate accordingly.
MAIN BODY
Benefits of exercise for children physical health and general well being
Physically fit children are more attentive and corporeal acceptable with their bones and
muscles. Exercise reduces the risk of diabetes, cancer and other risk full conditions. Exercise will
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make users healthier and fit. It allows children to have a better outlook of life by building
confidence, managing anxiety and reduce depression even and also enhance level of confidence
among children. Parents should be aware to being very attentive and serious towards their
children.
Children wellbeing is a more concerning part for the parents that helps to ensure children
proper healthy and fit growth (Davies, Knuiman and Rosenberg, 2015). It gives groovy and
enlarging process of doing great things and better in advancing level.
At the time of early age, babies are needed special care by parents to make more efficient
and knowledgeable. For that, parents should make proper diet plan for their child in order to
ensure better growth. Exercise gives various opportunities to children to play when they become
young as possible to ensure better quality and growth. There are different benefits that help to
understand the importance of exercise for children development.
Development of organs: The organs are most crucial essential part for human body. It
makes easier to live life happily and fit (Donnelly and et.al., 2016). Without taking care of all
organs through exercise, it might affect the children health. It makes children more energetic and
challenging growth action. It makes children body more flexible and reliable.
Aids sleeping and eating patterns: Exercise will also provide the best plan or sleeping
routine for children that helps in child sleep and eating patterns. Children should exercise twice
in a day to benefit and energetic. Moreover, it brings the better growth and managing effective
children health care according to their diet plan. This will help to take care of children better
health and growth for the child proper growth.
Supports the development of bones: It gives the proper supports and better quality of
task making performance. It is the long term process and makes good things and growth. Overall,
it takes the best effective growth making task (Hirshkowitz and et.al., 2015). The best exercise
and activities for maintaining bones energy through walking, running and others. These forms of
exercise will help children to be strong and well effective that helps to maintain their physical
ability to grow later in life.
Aid socialization: Children are energetic and socialistic in order to make friends and get
attached to human beings. Adoption of exercise in daily routine will help children to play and
make new friends (Landsverk, 2017). This process will be assist to enhance social skills and aid
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to learn new accomplishment that ensure that children purpose be more participated in activities.
This will help to make a clear vision to bring new and better objectives and goals.
Improved lung capacity: Capacity of lung will always be improved after exercising or
engaging in playing activities. This helps to take care of more enlargement and growing process
that will be beneficial for the children wellbeing (Langford and et.al., 2014). All age group
children should adopt the habit of exercising. Exercise gives better and long lasting
effectiveness. It brings new level of challenges and growth.
Due to poor diet or health and wellbeing, it might affect the behavior of children. Apart
from that, it will be more enlarging and performance effective goals. Besides, it has been seen
that children who are overweight are attracted towards health sickness problems, which leads to
obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol problems. Due to high weight, children might
be increasing the chances of high blood pressure or heart a tack. (Bradshaw, ed., 2016). For
that, guardian has to be followed proper diet plan and meaningful diet for making good healthy
body level Parents would have been facing many challenges. In order to get over from the
challenges, parents should adopt better activity plan setup for making its child physically strong
and challenging. Apart from that, children also might be suffering from the following problems
due to avoiding exercise and raising weight (Lubans and et.al., 2016).
 Asthma and other breathing difficulties
 Several types of diabetes
 High cholesterol
 Depression
 Inability to exercise due to breathlessness
 High blood pressure
It gives long lasting effects in order to meet needs of healthy and energetic plan
(McMahon and et.al., 2017). In terms of young adulthood training and growth it required better
exercise activities to get over from these issues and problems. Associated with being overweight
due to not aware about the proper exercises are given below:
 Arthritis
 Liver disease
 Gout
 Depression
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 Infertility Problems
 Respiratory problems
Inadequate nutrients may lead to many problems. A person taking low effectiveness and
down performing channel of doing the things in effective manner. A child considers underweight
would be not getting all nutrients or they are not absorbing enough nutrients in order to maintain
a healthy body weight. Overall, it takes the low performing level of tasking performance.
National and local incentives help in promoting well-being of children. This makes the
children base strong and productive that helps in their well-being (Neal and Hammer, 2017).
This promotes long process that helps to take care of the children health and secure matter of
fact. This helps to make their career more effective and productive. Some activities will help to
promote some activities to enhance the growth level.
5 a day campaign: This initiative taken by the departments of health to encourage the
children to eat 5 portions of fruit and vegetables very day. It makes the proper and effective
pressure in order to take the long lasting efforts and growth.
School fruit and veg scheme: This is another campaign that makes process more
challenging and long lasting effect on the children well-being.
Plan 3 activities for children to exercise which cover different age ranges and explaining how
they are age appropriate.
Exercise is very much required for children to make body energetic and strong. For that
proper diet plan or exercise has to be there in daily routine (Donnelly and et.al., 2016). Children
are very small and less mature to take care the basic needs of themselves. It is the responsibility
of the parents to take care of the needs and following charging marketing area. They are
responsible to take care of the betterment of effective goals and better performing ideas. Through
which children will be getting strengthen muscles and joints in addition to becoming strong by
mental and physical manner (Ravens-Sieberer and et.al., 2014). Overall, it makes the proper and
effective challenging situation for parents to adopt in more productive manner. Encouraging
children to stay fit and healthy through effective challenging growth. Moreover, it brings new
services and growth for making child more productive and long lasting. Children activities and
new promotional activity will be more helpful for children to make better changing goals for the
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children to make new understanding process. On other side, parents or guardians are needs to be
more attentive and productive towards the children growth. On the basis of required time and
performing better chances growth. It is required to make. To make the proper chances and
effective goal making chances.
In order to make sure about activities and plan parents and guardian would always be
very much serious and productive towards the children growth. Apart from that, there are so
many activities are there for different age people. Such kinds of activities are helpful to make the
children understanding more effective. Apart from that, it makes child stronger at physical and at
mental level (Hirshkowitz and et.al., 2015).
EYFS is the process to ensure that children should have sufficient care takers, or guardian
with them to be more protective and safe. Staff has a responsibility to make sure the children
safety and their needs level. In order to make sure about the according situation there is need of
record ratio between adults to children (Landsverk, 2017).
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Activity Planner
Age Group Activity Ratios in line
with the
EYFS (Adult
to children)
Equipment Number of
children
Outcomes
0-6 Month Motor skills 1: 5 Group, small
manipulative,
images, toys.
5 Guardian and
parents can
sing and talk
with the child
by using
exaggerated
tones of voice
(Donnelly and
et.al., 2016).
Besides,
watch the
expressions of
babies observe
how they react
to different
pitches.
Another
activity could
parent can
adopt such as
massage, this
helps to make
babies relax
and happy
(Langford and
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et.al., 2014).
Flying can
also be
another
activity under
which
guardian
gently lift
baby up and
move him
down, up as
well.
6-12 Month Shake the
bottle, light
show,
container
play.
1: 6 Smaller toy,
container,
colored
plastic
containers,
mini
flashlights.
6 For babies 6-
12 months the
best activities
for that to
make them
little stronger
(Davies
Knuiman and
Rosenberg,
2015). Parents
can adopt
some
activities such
as light show.
Turn on some
mini flash
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lights and
drop them into
empty water
bottles.
Besides,
container play
is the another
fun play
activity for
babies in
which place
some
container with
an opening a
bigger balls or
pegs and
handed to the
baby (Lubans
and et.al.,
2016). Due to
moving or
rolling the
container
again and
again to see
what inside
the container.
Shake the
bottle is
another one
activity for
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Dance Room, music
and props.
5
babies, in
which parent
fill the bottle
with some
stuff. Let baby
find out what's
exactly inside
the box
(McMahon
and et.al.,
2017).
Dance is
another
activity that
makes babies
more
energetic and
playful.
Dancing helps
to move the
body parts
that helps
children to
make stronger
and energetic
(McMahon M.
and et.al.,
2017).
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1-2 years Painting
fireworks,
finger
painting
festive lights
and drama.
1:5 Painting
colors,
Brushes,
Notebooks
etc.
5 For 1-2 years
of babies
painting,
fireworks
activities or
play is
become
fruitful for
growing better
understanding
in between the
children
(Lubans and
et.al., 2016).
Drama is the
best activity to
introduce the
best
approachable
target goals.
2-3 years Puffy paints,
Pompom
Hockey,
1:6 Tools activity
games.
5 Puffy paints
is the
productive
activity for 2-
3 years of
babies. It is
easy to make
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just to make
arrange all
ingredients in
your pantry
and after the
child finished
the painting. It
is super easy
to make more
productive
and enjoy full
work for them
(McMahon M.
and et.al.,
2017).
Pompom
Hockey is
another kid
entertainment
activity with
hockey. This
makes the
proper and
challenging
task for
children.
3-5 years Trace letters,
Throwing
games, Play
bingo,
Matching
1:5 Gaming Tools 5 Tracing the
letters is the
best activities
for 3 to 5
years of
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shapes. students that
helps to
connect them
into more
practical
manner
(McMahon M.
and et.al.,
2017).
Throwing
balls helps to
make them to
gain control of
their machine
skills.
Hopscotch is a
perfect option
because kids
must toss a
rock or a bean
bag. Play
bingo is
another well
effective
activity for
playing. This
helps to make
children learn
about new
numbers.
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Wall chalk
Mural Glass Board,
Stationary
items.
It is another
type of
exercise
method
through
children
engage with
some
activities
makes itself
confident and
happy
(Davies,
Knuiman and
Rosenberg,
2015).
Besides, this
activity
required paper
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board, canvas
and legitimate
surface to
draw and
paint on along
with that, it
also requires
the most
challenging
and fast
forward
results and
challenging
factors.
Car racing is
itself is very
much required
and long
lasting in
order to make
the proper
performance
level.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of discussion, it can be concluded that children well-being is the most
essential and needed for the children better enhancement. Child care is the incredible important
for the childcare practitioner. Apart from that, it brings the new major goals and long lasting
performance level. Present study has been based on children well-being and the importance of
children exercise in early age. It has been suggested that, exercise must be the important part of
children daily life in order to take long term fast forwards results. Besides, study also expressed
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the activity plan for children exercise that makes proper effective. Besides, it also helps to take
care about the long term process or well-being challenging growth. Hence, it also has been
suggested that, all parents should adopt the proper diet and physical pan for their children fit
health growth. Study also described the different activities for children as per their age group.
Such as for 0-6 month’s babies they required some more playful activities for their better
development growth such as singing, moving hands, body movements etc. Such activities are
helps to enhance mental or physical strength of students as per their last effective growth. Along
with that, overall study based on children well-being and also explained same effective and
challenging performing task for children development process. For this, study covered all
challenging task and effective process goals for the development of children growth.
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