Scarf dance preschool

Scarf play is an excellent opportunity for preschool children to learn many developmental skills while swishing, floating, waving and tossing scarves. What looks like just fun and games is actually enhancing your child’s development in multiple areas. You can do these at home, for free. As a school based physical therapist, I use these lesson plans all the time because I can modify them into a great therapeutic tool for my students with special needs AND they are standards based!

10 Scarf Movement Activities for preschool and kindergarten music time. Read the post by Sing Play Create with the 10 scarf activities.

A great video for any gym that has light weight "juggling scarves". You can find them on Amazon here. The video gives you a great starting point for scarf activities you can do with your preschool age gymnastics classes and some younder youth too. While scarf handling may not be cartwheels or swings, it's still

WHEE! Miss Carole from Macaroni Soup! here in the Windy City with a musical activity you can do any time of year - wind or no wind, Chi...

I’m sharing with you 10 scarf songs for preschool and kindergarten music time, perfect to share with your elementary music students and clients or during your next movement break with scarves on your early childhood music classes.

Elementary music teachers and movement teachers can use scarves for many activities. In this blog post you'll find 12 ways to use scarves in music class.

I found the sweetest video of a young music teacher, demonstrating a scarf dance to The Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy and as I went to look for it this...

Here's a list of movement scarf activities for preschool and kindergarten music classes. Some of the activities can be used with toddlers as well. These can easily be added to your lesson, especially if kids are already going to have the scarves on hand for something else you've planned.

Once upon a time, I attended a Jim Gill early childhood workshop and he brought out a giant dance scrunchie. He showed off how he used his scrunchie and it was a lot of fun! Fast forward about 10 years to when I had extra money in my programming budget and my library got our own giant scrunchie. I will admit that giant scrunchies are not necessary to putting on a quality story time. There are many supplies that I would get first (such as books, shakers, and scarves), which is why it took 10…

Teaching young children can be a challenge. Getting them moving is a great way to assist in their development while engaging their creativity.