🍎 Hello, September!

School may be back, but kids certainly didn't leave all that energy at summer vacation. 😆

September is a fantastic month to get outside, enjoy cooler mornings and evenings, explore the neighborhood and build movement into everyday family life.

Keep Them Moving isn't about workouts, calories or being the fastest kid on the playground. It's about helping kids discover that moving their bodies can be FUN.

Every day this month brings a different little challenge. Some take five minutes. Some can become an entire family adventure. Most require little or no equipment, and almost everything can be adjusted for different ages and abilities.

Ready?

Shoes on. Screens down. Buzzy says MOVE! 🐝💨

Sept. 1: 🎈 Balloon Keep-Up

Ages: 2+ | Time: 10–15 min
Keep a balloon from touching the floor using hands, elbows, knees or feet.

🐝 Buzzy Bonus: How many taps can you get in a row?

Sept. 2: 🌳 Playground Challenge

Ages: 2+ | Time: 30+ min
Visit a playground and challenge kids to climb, swing, slide and balance.

Sept. 3: 🐻 Animal Walk Race

Ages: 3+ | Time: 10 min
Bear crawl, crab walk, frog jump and waddle like a penguin across the room.

🐝 Buzzy Bonus: Let the kids invent an animal walk for the adults. This could go terribly. 😂

Sept. 4: 🎵 Freeze Dance

Ages: All Ages | Time: 10–20 min
Crank up the music. Dance until someone pauses it, then FREEZE!

Sept. 5: 🥾 Family Nature Walk

Ages: All Ages | Time: 20–60 min
Head outside and explore a trail, park or neighborhood.

Sept. 6: 🧺 Laundry-Basket Basketball

Ages: 3+ | Time: 10–15 min
Roll up clean socks and shoot them into a laundry basket.

Yes, folding the socks afterward is part of the sport. 😉

Sept. 7: 🏃 Family Relay Race

Ages: 4+ | Time: 15–30 min
Create stations for running, hopping, crawling, skipping and balancing.

Sept. 8: 🔴 Red Light, Green Light

Ages: 3+ | Time: 10–20 min
Classic for a reason. Add yellow light = slow motion and purple light = dance.

Sept. 9: 🪨 Rock-Hop Challenge

Ages: 3+ | Time: 15 min
Place paper “rocks” around the floor and travel across the room without touching the “water.”

Sept. 10: 🫧 Bubble Chase

Ages: 2+ | Time: 15 min
Blow bubbles and have kids run, jump and reach to pop them.

Sept. 11: ❤️ Family Walk & Talk

Ages: All Ages | Time: 20+ min
Take an evening walk and let everyone answer one question:

“What was the best part of your day?”

Movement + connection. 💗

Sept. 12: 🥏 Frisbee Day

Ages: 4+ | Time: 20–30 min
Head outside and practice throwing and catching a Frisbee.

Sept. 13: 👵 Grandparents Move Too!

Ages: All Ages | Time: 15–30 min
Celebrate Grandparents Day with a family walk, gentle dance party, backyard game or movement activity everyone can enjoy together.

Sept. 14: 🧘 Balance Challenge

Ages: 3+ | Time: 10 min
Stand on one foot. Walk heel-to-toe. Balance a small object on your head.

Who can balance the longest?

Sept. 15: 🏠 Indoor Obstacle Course

Ages: 3+ | Time: 20–30 min
Crawl under chairs, hop over pillows, zigzag around toys and balance along a tape line.

Sept. 16: 🎲 Movement Dice

Ages: 3+ | Time: 10–15 min
Roll a die and assign each number an action:

1 = jump
2 = spin
3 = hop
4 = march
5 = dance
6 = choose your own!

Sept. 17: 🍎 Apple Balance Race

Ages: 4+ | Time: 10–15 min
Balance an apple on a spoon and walk from one point to another.

🐝 Buzzy Bonus: Make an obstacle course!

Sept. 18: ⚽ Kick-It Challenge

Ages: 3+ | Time: 20 min
Grab a ball and create targets using cones, buckets or chalk.

How many targets can you hit?

Sept. 19: 🪁 Go Fly a Kite

Ages: 4+ | Time: 30+ min
Find an open space and take advantage of a breezy September day.

No wind? Run with it. Congratulations, you've accidentally created cardio. 😂

Sept. 20: 🌲 Nature Scavenger Hunt

Ages: 3+ | Time: 30+ min
Walk until you find:

☐ Something red
☐ Something yellow
☐ A pinecone
☐ A bird
☐ Something rough
☐ Something tiny
☐ A cool rock
☐ Something that smells good

Sept. 21: 🦘 Jumping Challenge

Ages: 3+ | Time: 10 min
Try long jumps, tiny jumps, sideways jumps, frog jumps and jumping over a line.

Sept. 22: 🍂 First Day of Fall Walk

Ages: All Ages | Time: 20–45 min
Celebrate fall by heading outside and looking for the first signs of the season changing.

Sept. 23: 🧹 Chore Olympics

Ages: 4+ | Time: 15–30 min
Put on music and race the clock while cleaning bedrooms, putting away toys, sweeping or carrying laundry.

Movement AND chores?

Parents just won September. 🏆😂

Sept. 24: 🧱 Sidewalk Chalk Movement Course

Ages: 3+ | Time: 20–30 min
Draw arrows, circles, squiggly lines and instructions:

HOP! • SPIN! • JUMP! • TIPTOE! • DANCE!

Sept. 25: 💃 Kids Pick the Dance Party

Ages: All Ages | Time: 15 min
Each family member chooses one song.

Everyone has to dance to everybody's selection.

Yes, even THAT song.

Sept. 26: 🏞️ Explore a New Park

Ages: All Ages | Time: 30–90 min
Choose a park your family has never visited.

Walk the paths, test the playground and explore!

Sept. 27: 🎃 Pumpkin Roll

Ages: 3+ | Time: 15–20 min
Use a small pumpkin or ball and create a backyard rolling race.

Who can get theirs across the finish line first?

Sept. 28: 👻 Ghost Bowling

Ages: 3+ | Time: 15–20 min
Draw ghost faces on empty plastic bottles or white paper cups. Set them up and knock them down with a ball.

Sept. 29: 🕷️ Spider Web Crawl

Ages: 3+ | Time: 15–20 min
Create a pretend spider web with yarn stretched between furniture and let kids climb, crawl and wiggle through without touching it.

Adult supervision required, and keep yarn loose and away from neck height.

Sept. 30: 🏆 Kids vs. Grown-Ups Challenge

Ages: Everyone! | Time: 20–30 min

Finish September with a family showdown!

Try:

🏃 Fastest race
🦩 Longest one-foot balance
🦘 Farthest jump
🎯 Best throw
💃 Silliest dance
🐻 Fastest bear crawl

Keep score if your family enjoys competition, or forget the points entirely and just be ridiculous together.

🌧️ BONUS: “But It's Raining!” Movement Ideas

Colorado weather doesn't always cooperate, so keep these in your back pocket:

The Floor Is Lava • Hallway Bowling • Simon Says • Dance Party • Balloon Volleyball • Indoor Scavenger Hunt • Yoga • Follow the Leader • Sock Basketball • Indoor Obstacle Course

Ten minutes counts.

You don't need an elaborate activity every day.

🐝 The Buzzy B No-Pressure Rule

Some kids love organized sports.

Some would rather climb a tree.

Some love dancing.

Some love hiking.

Some want to ride a bike, swim, jump on a trampoline or chase bubbles around the backyard.

It all counts.

The goal isn't to create tiny professional athletes. It's to help kids find ways of moving that make them think:

“Can we do that again?”

That's the sweet spot. 💗

🍂 Keep Moving Beyond September!

Thirty days later, hopefully we've burned some wiggles, discovered a new favorite park, taken a few family walks and had at least one grown adult hopping around the living room pretending to be a frog. 😂

Movement doesn't have to be complicated, expensive or scheduled.

Walk. Run. Wiggle. Dance. Climb. Explore. PLAY.

Ten minutes here and twenty minutes there add up, and even better, those little bursts of movement can become some pretty fantastic family memories.

So when September ends, don't stop.

October has trails to explore, leaves to crunch, pumpkins to carry and plenty more reasons to Keep Them Moving! 🍂🎃

🐝 The Buzzy B | Find Your Family Buzz!