[Callers] pre-school dances?

[Meg Dedolph]

Hi Luke,
I would come with a program that doesn't require kids to have a solid grasp
of left or right, or to participate fully in a setting where you're telling
them what to do and they do it, to music.
Maybe plan on a lot of singing games, and a lot of you being out there
doing it with them - the old classics are great. Warm up with a little Ring
Around the Rosie (including the part about the cows in the meadow lying
down and sleeping), maybe a little London Bridge in a circle? I get a lot
of mileage from the Sleeping Bear song and game, and the one about the
small frogs dancing in a ring.
Freeze Dance is great, and the ball of yarn thing is great. How about Can't
Jump Josie or Sally Go Round the Sun?
Maybe check out the New England Dancing Masters books for ideas?
You can also make stuff up - Long lines forward and back twice, everyone
make a tunnel with their hands and top couple dive under - that sort of
thing.
If you need more ideas, let me know - I teach parent-child music classes
and we do a lot of playparty stuff, so I have a lot of this stuff at the
top of my brain.
Good luck!
Meg

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 11:48 AM Linda Leslie via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Tom’s dance is the perfect type dance to segue into the “spiral” dance! No
> partner needed, and after doing the spiral in and out (led by you), you can
> march them all over your room, or even into other available spaces.
> My other go to dance is Galopede. The A1 can be a simple forward and back
> twice. Doing a longways assumes the kids will partner up.
> Let us know how you do!
> Linda
>
> On Oct 29, 2017, at 9:02 AM, Tom Hinds via Callers <
> callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
> Here's one.  They have to know the colors of the clothes they are
> wearing.  It's a circle.
>
> Circle left, right
> Forward and back .....
>
> Those wearing red, for instance, skip in the inside.  Then skip the other
> way back to place.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Oct 29, 2017, at 12:53 AM, Luke Donforth via Callers <
> callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I've got my collection of family dances that I use with mixed age groups.
> But I wonder if anyone has recommendations for family dance stuff when you
> don't have the full family?
>
> What's good for ~12 pre-schoolers (age 3 to 5) when they aren't dancing
> with their parents; and you have maybe 2 other adults total. It seems
> dubious they'd get through even two dances, so give me your favorite if you
> have one.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Luke Donforth
> Luke.Donforth at gmail.com <Luke.Donev at gmail.com>
>
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