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@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@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.

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On Oct 29, 2017, at 12:53 AM, Luke Donforth via Callers <callers@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!

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