Gymnastics after sleep in the older group is required. Indeed, immediately after awakening, the children's body needs to be given a boost of energy for subsequent games and activities. And to cope with this task will help a simple complex of simple exercises that are very simple to perform, but make the muscles “warm up” and help the body as a whole finally go into active mode.
Best of all, if such gymnastics after sleep in the older group will take place in the form of a game - then it will be not only useful, but also interesting for the kids. Here are a few exercises that are practiced in most modern kindergartens and are recognized as one of the best:
- "The kittens are awakening." To begin with, children should take their starting position - lying on their backs, while arms should be extended along the body. Alternately raising their hands up and stretching, the kids (they are kittens in the game) sip the “front legs”.
- Then you can proceed to the “hind legs”, that is, to the legs. The starting position is the same as during the first exercise. Alternately, the children raise their right and left legs, also sipping them.
- At this stage, gymnastics after sleeping in the older group continues to develop the given theme of the game. Now we will "look for a cat mom." Toddlers will need to roll over onto their tummy, raise their heads and make head turns to the right, left, up and down.
- Further, our “kittens” begin to show emotions. To begin with, they will have to "get angry": get on all fours, raise your head, bend the back in an arc. For a greater immersion in the atmosphere of the game, you can lower your head and publish an angry “Fir Fir Fir”.
- And finally the time has come for the “kittens” to be affectionate: the starting position, as from exercise No. 4. But now we will bend the back in the other direction, raise our heads and wag the “tail”.

Such gymnastics after sleep in the older group is interesting, pleasant and, of course, useful. You can start the awakening smoothly: turn on quiet soft music, and then let alternately “wake up” all parts of the body. The first to do this are the pens. You can clap your hands, rub them against each other. Kids perform movements as if they put on and take off rings, bracelets and watches, fasten locks on them. Next - “wake up” the face. First you need to stroke its different areas (nose, eyebrows and forehead, cheeks), and then make funny grimaces. And finally, the legs “wake up” last. At first they can be stroked, patted on them, and then perform the exercise “bicycle”.
Awakening gymnastics in the older group should take place at a calm pace to ensure a smooth transition from sleep to wakefulness. In addition, it will help to accustom kids to the fact that they must perform all movements consciously, with the required muscle tension.
The proposed charging complex is also useful in that the children receive self-massage skills, which subsequently will be useful to them more than once.
That kind of gymnastics after sleep can be so interesting. The older group of kindergarten, and younger schoolchildren, as a rule, are completely delighted with fascinating exercises and enjoy doing them!