Garden Movement Book & Cards | Brain Breaks Gross Motor | SPED Autism OT PreK

Spring into movement with your class! This Garden Movement Book (and Cards!) gets students marching, hopping, and growing like a garden — building gross motor, motor planning, following directions, and imitation skills. Use it for movement breaks, brain breaks, circle time, or those wiggly in-between moments. The teacher reads and models while students imitate — or students pick a movement card and act it out!

📦 What's Included

• A garden movement book with action prompts
• A set of garden movement cards
• Print, laminate, and bind/cut for repeated use

📚 How to Use

• The teacher reads the book and models the movements while students imitate
• Students can choose a movement card and practice each movement
• Use during circle time, as a warm-up, or as a small group language activity
• Use as a movement break or brain break before/after transitions or to fill a few minutes
• Great for whole group, small group, 1:1, or therapy sessions

📖 Excerpt from the Book

"March, march, march. March as we go!

March, march, march. But not on a row!

Hop, hop, hop. Hop as we go!

Hop, hop, hop! But not on a row!"

🎯 Skills Targeted

• Gross motor development and movement
• Motor planning
• Motor imitation
• Following directions
• Self-regulation (movement and brain breaks)
• Garden and spring vocabulary
• Listening and attending

💛 Perfect For

• Special education and autism support classrooms
• Occupational therapy, physical therapy, and adaptive PE
• ABA programs (imitation skills)
• Speech-language therapy (following directions, vocabulary)
• Preschool, PreK, and early elementary
• Movement breaks, brain breaks, and circle time
• Garden, spring, and plant units, early childhood, ECSE, and homeschool

🌟 Why Teachers Love This Resource

• A book PLUS movement cards — flexible, two ways to use it
• Builds gross motor, motor planning, and imitation skills
• A ready-to-go movement break and circle-time activity
• Keeps students engaged and gets the wiggles out
• Fun garden theme perfect for spring
• Reusable year after year once laminated

🌱 Want music AND movement? Pair it with the Plant a Garden Adapted Song Book.

🌷 More hands-on spring and garden activities:

• Hands-On Spring Activities
• Hands-On Garden Activities
• Adapted Song Books Collection