Freeze dance
Freeze dance
Dancing and freezing when the music stops!
Materials Required
- Some fun music!
- A clear space for music and movement.
Scarves, Kitchen implements/containers as musical instruments.
Play experience profile
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Ages:
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Min Playtime5 - 15 Minutes
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Skills
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Energy LevelActive play
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Messiness Rating
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EYLF Outcomes
Play Experience Preparation
Prepare a clear space that is hazard and trip free to allow for music and movement.Experience Steps
- Choose some fun dancing music.
- Dance around with your child.
- Stop the music and say "Freeze".
- Hold hands up as your are freezing and encourage your child to stand really still.
- Repeat several times and most importantly have lots of fun!!
What to talk about, or questions to ask during the experience
- Stop and go
- Moving fast/slow
- Moving body parts up/down
- Round and round
- Rhythm and beat
- Spinning and twirling
Build on this...
- When the music stops touch something that is green, red , pink etc.
- Playing musical chairs.
- When the music stops make a funny face or a funny animal sound.
WHO guidelines for physical activity and sedentary behaviour
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This activity encourages your child to be physically active.
EYLF Outcomes
The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators.
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The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators. View PDF
- Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
- Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
- Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work
EYLF Principle
Principle 1: Secure, respectful and reciprocal relationships. Through a widening network of secure relationships, children develop confidence and feel respected and valued.
EYLF Practice
Practice: Learning through play. Play can expand children’s thinking and enhance their desire to know and to learn. In these ways play can promote positive dispositions towards learning. Children’s immersion in their play illustrates how play enables them to simply enjoy being.
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