It is a natural behaviour of kids to move. Kids move because they want to experience joy and test themselves. Especially in the first 10 years movement experiences play an important role for the development of kids.  The movement behavior influences not only the emotional-psychical and social perception progress. Also the mental development during infancy takes mainly place via movement- and perception learning. International studies proofed that sports influences positively the learning aptitude of kids.

Çanakkale is a port town on the western side of the Dardanelles and has got 130.000 inhabitants. 
Although Canakkale offers a wide range of possibilities for leisure time activities and natural settings such as sea – the development of overweight and less active kids and youngsters is rising.

There is no sport education for primary school students from 1th till 4th grade in public schools. Also in most of the kindergardens there are no movement lessons or specific material to organise simple sport and movement exercises.

Generally the private sector offers are expensive and not affordable for everyone. Of course also the municipality of Canakkale organises some public sports classes which have got a really limited capacity.

Because of this situation a general sport habbit of kids and an awareness of families is just developing among educated and social higher class families. There is a high demand of programs in the idea of ‘sports for all’.

Another important factor for the situation is, that the education for primary school teachers does not offer a variety of  sportive and creative activities for movement education. Sport teacher candidates are still educated to teach ‘classical sports’ focussing the competetive character as football and swimming. New methods and tools has to be integrated also in primary school and kindergarden teachers education.

Unfortunately there is just a minimum of creative- kids friendly material to raise awareness for a healthy life style and sports (songs, games, books), that teachers could use for their lessons. And most of the material can just be found in english or german.