1. CREATIVE MOVEMENT & MUSIC
Do music freeze to the Chicken Dance Song

2. Benefits From Music and Movement
Develops self-confidence
Develops language skills
Develops listening skills
Develops Creativity skills
Develops their Cognitive skills
Music naturally delights and moves AND Calms and soothes kids as it gives them a chance to
Music is a great transition for change (Clean Up Song)
Provides children with opportunities to explore elements of music (rhythm, sound, dynamics).

3. Large Group Music Time Small Group Music Center
Placed away from noisy and active play areas.
Wide variety of musical instruments for the children to use and explore.
Supplies to create their own musical instruments.
Carpeted / rug to sit on and move around on.
Tape recorders / CD players / Microphones
Headphones, Tapes/CD’s
Supplies for the children to move to the music.
Streamers, scarves, paper plates, costumes, feathers…

4. The Music Program Singing Instruments and Movement Experiences
Songs, Fingerplays, and Chants
Instruments and
Using their body as a musical instrument
Musical Instruments
Movement Experiences
Listening to music and moving to it
Doing an activity with a song

5. Rhythm Sticks Tap out your Name Create a beat pattern and we repeat it
Tap out the beat as someone moves around
Follow a teacher directed beat movement
Listen to a walking beat (slow), Listen to a jogging beat (faster), Pound for a jumping beat. Now have the kids listen to the beat and do the actions. Use a bell to signal freeze.
Tap out a beat to a story (Click Clack Moo By: Doreen Cronin)
Tap out a beat to a song (Sing ‘Ring around the Rosies’
or ‘Sally the Camel’ and tap a beat with it.)

6. ELEMENTS OF MUSIC: BINGO RHYTHM Clap, clap different sequences
SOUND / TONE
Sounds of different instruments, sound of voice
MELODY
Move hand up and down with notes
HARMONY
Identify notes that don’t sound right
DYNAMICS
Soft, loud
TEMPO/ BEAT
How fast & slow
Playing guitar to Elvis Presley music
BINGO

7. 1. CHOOSING SONGS:
Familiar songs and tunes that they have heard or sung before
Simple Songs with lots of repetition
Old Macdonald had a farm
Songs with fingerplays, actions, games
Wheels on the bus, Patty Cake, Hokey Pokey
Songs and Dances of different cultures
Songs with funny sounds or silly lyrics
Hey-Diddle-Diddle, Name Song (Annie, Annie, Bo Bannie..)
What is a Knick-Knack Paddywhack? This song has it all!

8. THIS OLD MAN Create a hand-jive to go with this song
This old man, he played six He played knick-knack on my sticks With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home This old man, he played seven He played knick-knack up in heaven With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home This old man, he played eight He played knick-knack on my gate With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home This old man, he played nine He played knick-knack on my spine [some versions use "line" here] With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home This old man, he played ten He played knick-knack once ag'n [some versions use "on my hen" here] With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home
This old man, he played one He played knick-knack on my thumb [some versions use "drum"] With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home This old man, he played two He played knick-knack on my shoe With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home This old man, he played three He played knick-knack on my knee With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home This old man, he played four He played knick-knack on my door With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home This old man, he played five He played knick-knack on my hive With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home

9. TEACHING A SONG: Practice the song and know it by heart
Being enthusiastic is more important than having a good voice. Animated and smile.
Catch their interest with a picture, object, or story. Relate it to life in a story.
Sing it from beginning to end. Allow them to participate with you while the listen.
Give the children something to listen for.
They can clap along while you sing it a second time
Use musical instruments, pictures, props, costumes, or gestures to remind children of words.
Teach the part that is repeated most often first and then teach other sections of the song.
I’m a little teapot short and stout,
Here is my handle and here is my spout.
When I get all steamed up, hear me shout.
Tip me over and pour me out.

10. A Chubby Little Snowman (A Fingerplay)
A chubby little snowman    Hold your arms in a circle to make a fat belly .
Had a carrot nose. Point your forefinger out from your nose.
Along came a bunny. Make a bunny with your fingers. Make it hop.
And what do you suppose? Turn palms upward and shrug in
disbelief
That hungry little bunny Rub your tummy. 
Looking for his lunch Shade your eyes, as if looking into the distance.
Ate that snowman's carrot nose Make a bunny with one hand and a carrot with the other.
Nibble, nibble, CRUNCH! Make the bunny eat the carrot with two small bites and a final big bite.
Listen to this song.

11. Other MUSIC ideas to not Frog”get:
Act out the song
– Pretend to be or do what the music says (Horses, Rabbits, etc.)
Guessing games
(Play Name That Tune – guess the sing with first 3-5 notes)
Let them choose the songs to sing
Vary the way you sing, listen to, and move
Sing 5 speckled Frogs in an opera voice, with a country twang, fast, like an old person without teeth, …..
PIGGY BACK Song - Change the words to a song.
Instead of 5 frog’s – turtles or pigs etc.
Same tune different topic and words
(Sing:Twinkle Twinkle and ABC at the same time)

12. PIGGGY BACK SONG ACTIVITY:
Group is given a copy of a song and a topic. Change the song in some way that deals with the assigned topic.
Sample ideas:
5 Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed (Change monkeys to “Fish”)
Ring Around the Rosies (Change “All Fall Down” to something about water)
Bumble Bee Song (Change “Bee” to an animal on the farm)
Happy Birthday to you (sing about cleaning up)
The farmer in the Dell (sing about the weather)
Row Row Row your boat (sing about the Zoo)
- She’ll Be Coming Round the mountain (can you climb like a monkey?)
SING! (Tune: Row Row Row your Boat)
Sing, Sing, Sing with me
Sing out loud and clear
To tell the people all around
That music time is here
Divide into groups by giving out two copies of several well know tunes. They are to find the partner with the same song by humming the melody.

13. THE REBELLIOUS SINGER
What about a child who won’t sing or participate?
Don’t pressure
They usually know the songs and sing them at home.
Let them help with the props
Let them choose the song to sing
Have a teacher sit with them and sing
Say, “What is something teacher doesn’t like to do alone – sing. Will you help me?”

14. Mouth sounds orchestra.
2. Rhythm Instruments
They learn
Build Listening skills
Find a beat of a sound
Project feelings
(shake instruments to show feelings)
Experiment with sounds
Their body is a musical instrument
Uno Gelespy Song
Sandpaper blocks
Bongo Drums
Rattlers
Shakers
Rhythm sticks
Rhythm Bells
Their body
Kazoo
Rain Song
Begin by rubbing hands together. Next, snap your fingers. Third, pat your thighs. And lastly, stomp your feet. Continue making sounds but go backwards to the beginning.
Mouth sounds orchestra.
Everyone or groups make a different sound to a different beat and slowly add them in until all are doing them together and then slowly take them out.

15. 3. IDEAS FOR MOVEMENT: “Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky…. “
What about playing Hot Potato to music?
Musical chairs- where no one gets out: Have everyone’s name on a chair and when the music stops they are to find their name. While the music plays and they walk around, mix up the names again and have them find their name.
Duck, Duck, Goose
Red Light, Green Light
Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes
Hokey Pokey
Scarf Dancing, Ribbon Dancing
Exercise
Musical Instruments
Parachute
Mother May I
Mexican, Hawaiian Music
Act like the picture of an animal

16. CREATIVE MOVEMENT Children explore the way their body moves
Opportunity for a child to pretend to be something else
EGG MOVEMENTS (in a plastic egg are different movements)
It teaches body awareness, and what their body can do.
Develops coordination & control of movement.
Touch your ear to your shoulder, keep a balloon in the air using only body parts, move both body parts at the same time
Combines feeling rhythm with movement
Draw to music, streamers or scarves to music, Carpet skate
Have a Musical instrument parade
Shake Bells to ‘Twinkle Twinkle’ and “ring” a xylophone in between lines
Blow up your balloon!

17. Head, shoulders, knees, and toes
Country music.
Feather or balloon float
Head, shoulders, knees, and toes
Fast paced music.

18. Communicates and Expresses their ideas
Children move much better than they speak.
It simultaneously involves the inner being and the physical body.
Move as if you were carrying a heavy box, walk like a giant, run like an animal, be an ice cream cone melting in the summer, make an interesting shape with your body.
Learn how movement is related to space
Make yourself big, small, tall, short
Move around without touching anyone, pretend to be driving a car around the room, float around the room lie a feather
Lift your leg in front of you, backwards, sideways. Step backwards
Have 4 people link arms back to back and walk around like a spider while singing Eensy Weensy Spider

19. Teaching CREATIVE MOVEMENT:
Have lots of room, bare feet allows them to feel the movement.
Children love the familiar & repetition.
Don’t show them how. It restricts creativity.
Say, “Use your whole self”.
“Move how it sounds or makes you feel”.
“Can you ? Follow me!”
Encourage each child to do it in a different way.
Teach about personal space (bubbles pop if they are bumped)
Teach them how to stop when the music stops:
Emphasize that to stop means not to move at all – not a muscle or a bone!
Encourage children to listen carefully or else they won’t know when to stop.

20. Elements of Creative Movement
FORCE:
Energy (sudden/sustained)
Weight (strong/light)
Flow (free/bound)
BODY:
Parts
Shapes
Relationships
Balance

21. SPACE: TIME: MOVEMENT: Place Size Level Direction Pathway
Self space/general space
Size
Big/small, far reach/near reach
Level
High/low
Direction
Forward/backward, right/left, up/down
Pathway
Curved, straight, zigzag
TIME:
Speed (fast slow), rhythm (pulse, pattern)
MOVEMENT:
Walk, run jump
Bend, twist, stretch
Parachute play

22. Blow bubbles and have them imagine a bubble around their body.
Each bubble should be as wide as their outstretched arms and as tall as they are.
Place children far enough apart so that no one is touching their bubble.
Ask one child to move among the children, being careful not to break or touch anyone’s bubble.
Add more children until all children are moving and no one is breaking anyone else’s bubble.