We observed twelve kindergarten children during outdoor free play to determine how much time they spent on eight types of physical activity that involve different fundamental motor skills. Children were individually videotaped for 60 minutes in a kindergarten yard during free play in the spring in Finland. Software for coding time durations (1) used to code each child's behaviour into activity types. A mean inter-observer agreement rate of 89 percent across the eight activity types ensured the reliability of the observations.

The average times the children spent in (1) lying down, (2) sitting, (3) standing, (4) walking, (5) running, (6) light physical activities and games, (7) moderate-to-vigorous activities and games and (8) swinging will be presented.