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Halloween movement activities are the perfect recipe for this time of year at home or at school. Let’s exercise those gross motor muscles, add in some cross body movement actions and move to music this Halloween to keep spirits high and little creatures happy!
Little fingers can get a workout too! Activities included in this post will have them holding a scarf and waving it around. Be sure to have them switch hands so that both of them get an equal workout!
You’ll want to help your children find some personal space and be ready to move, so get a drink of water, take a bathroom break and be ready to move.
Looking for some classroom management tips to use during Halloween time? This blog post has some helpful tips for you.
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Here are some Halloween movement activities you can use at school or at home!
Boo! It’s a Halloween Freeze Dance brain break and movement activity for Halloween movement activities. Imagine dancing and freezing to spooky Halloween music to burn off some Halloween scary energy!
This activity is a great gross motor muscle activity. Keep an eye on the timer to help the children now when to push and when they are just about done. Each activity is 20 seconds.
Grab a scarf or a towel and get ready to do some cross body movement, move to directional words and burn some energy! Scarves are super effect Halloween movement activities.
These activities are sure to sweeten up the witches brew that you can serve to your students. Not only can you use the scarf activity for movement, but also connect learning HIGH/LOW, FAST/SLOW, EXPRESSION and DIRECTIONAL Math words.
Spooky and Fun Halloween body percussion activities on the Steady Beat.
Students will love to play and move with the Halloween characters and Flap, Stomp, Wave, and Shake to the beat using the video activity. Practice the patterns and get in a workout too!
If you’re teaching music, you’ll love using the Halloween body percussion brain break. It’s repeated patterns of movement that most children can copy.
More Halloween Elementary Music Activity Ideas in this blog post.
Quick and Easy Halloween Music Class Activities
The Halloween body percussion brain break is also that- a brain break that will work well in Kindergarten and First grade classes.
Get HALLOWEEN BODY PERCUSSION resource at the TPT STORE
Are you having a Halloween party? Then you’ll want to include the Halloween song and dance as part of the festivities.
GET HALLOWEEN DANCE AT THE TPT STORE
Love scarves? Here’s another one!
GET HALLOWEEN SCARVES AT THE TPT STORE
Need a workout? This Halloween freeze dance will do the trick and it’s a treat to do!
The Halloween skeleton dance is a fun movement activity. Let the children experiment with wiggles and jiggling their bodies. You can use the activity to help them learn about their body parts too!
GET THE HALLOWEEN FREEZE DANCE ACTIVITY ON THE TPT STORE
GET THE SKELETON DANCE RESOURCE AT TPT
See how much fun everyone is going to have doing these Halloween movement activities?
And teachers and moms will be pleased that the kids are getting their gross and fine motor muscles exercised!
If you are trapped inside due to bad weather, they are also an easy way to exercise those gross motor muscles and work out wiggles.
Halloween movement activities for gross and fine motor movement can really help children stay focused for learning activities.
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I’m hoping these Halloween movement activities help you have a SPOOKTAKULAR Halloween!
Thanks for reading!
Let’s move and learn with music!
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Hi there! I’m Sandra, one of the authors behind Sing Play Create. My goal is to provide teachers with interactive resources and activities to improve the effectiveness of their teaching and enhance student learning.
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