Lesson plan:
Activity name/ age group: Gross-motor popsicle sticks, 3-5
KDI: Physical development and health, 16. Gross-motor skills
Originating idea: Children love to move their bodies and by doing this they are not only getting their energy out but they are expanding their gross-motor skills!
Materials: popsicle sticks with different movements on them (jump, hop, etc)
Beginning: Gather all the children in the large group area. Begin asking them questions like, who knows how to hop? What animal hops? Would you guys like to try hopping like a bunny or jumping like frogs?
Middle: You and the children will do the movements as you pick out the popsicle sticks. 
Early: Some of the children may need to follow your lead, by doing the movements along with the children so they can see what movement they should be doing.  
Middle: These children can do all the movements but may have a hard time staying out of the personal space of their classmates. You can help them to accomplish keeping personal space by making sure all the children have enough space between them and reminding these children of personal space if they begin to forget. 
Later: These children can do the movements and maintain personal space. You can promote their further learning by saying things like “can you jump five times on one foot?” or just modifying the other movements to make them a bit more challenging. 
End: After doing all the movements the children may be tired or out of breath, you can offer them some water and have everyone take a moment to rest. 
Follow up idea: Since the children may not be able to read the popsicle sticks yet, you could get a foam dice and put pictures on each side of different animals that do the movements. Such as a picture of a frog, bunny, snake, and dinosaur. ​

Review:
The children did really well with this activity! They really enjoyed getting to do the different movements and most if not all of them could do the movements that were chosen from the popsicle sticks.  If i were to do this activity again I would put the movements in those plastic colorful eggs so the activity can be more interactive and also play into working on fine motor skills.