Stretchy Band and Connect a Band Movement Activities Music, PE, Team Building

Stretchy Band Activity Songs, Activity directions, Posters, will help you get your students moving and learning movement activities. Stretchy Band activities help students learn and move in group activities. Music, PE, Preschool and Special Needs Teachers to help students exercise fine and gross motor skills, stay focused, burn energy and have fun.

Creative movement activities provide opportunities to also practice social and team working skills and experience positive exercise! Activities can be adapted for Preschool up to Grade 6.

*The songs can be used with stretchy bands, scarves and parachute movement props. Home Schools will love the music and movement activities.

CONCEPTS:

Creative movement strengthens students’ abilities to CREATE, PERFORM, RESPOND, and CONNECT to learning goals because movement activities ask them to imagine, analyze, and express and:
Movement is a natural way for children to respond to music.
Movement is how many children learn.
Movement makes aural sound more real.
Creative movement activities provide opportunities for students to exercise fine and gross motor skills, practice social and team working skills and experience positive exercise!
RESOURCE INCLUDES:

This resource provides you with songs, presentations, teaching ideas and game directions to easily implement Stretchy Band activities into your lessons, activities and curriculum.

TEACHING GUIDE:

“8 Ways to Use Stretchy Bands” (Children ages 4-12)
Reasons why creative movement helps children engage in learning.
16 MOVEMENT and BRAIN BREAK ACTIVITIES

(You provide your own music or use the 5 song tracks.)
PDF files and a Power Point presentation to use in your classroom.
Rearrange the slides, insert your own music and you are ready for some serious fun.
RULES

65 MOVEMENT CARDS, POSTER AND FLASH CARDS

PDF files and in a Presentation file.
Create your own presentation directions, music selections and activities included.
5 SONGS

w/Mp3 Tracks-Actions and Movement Directions (Children ages 4-10)
Including: “Hello Mr. Stretchy” Sing a Long Video (Children ages 4-10)
THE FIVE SONGS:

This resource has activity and song lyrics. If you are looking for the ANIMATED SONG VIDEOS, CLICK ON THIS LINK. There is a NEW SONG VIDEO for each of the songs.

5 Songs with Activity and movement directions. Includes a poster with actions in a power point. (You’ll need to insert your own audio files.)

“Hello Mr. Stretchy” Includes a VIDEO for students to follow along.
“I Want to Move Like . . .”
“Let’s Bounce It!”
“Let’s Go Soaring”
“Let’s Walk Around the Sun”
USE THIS RESOURCE:

To learn music concepts- high/low, fast/slow

To learn math shapes and directional words- in/out, under/over, big/little, circle

To build classroom community- Teamwork, playing together, sharing, games

To develop gross motor skills- Big and little movements to help children exercise.

P.E. Class

Reward Days

Music and Movement Classes

MOVEMENT ACTIVITY TITLES:

1. COME ON IN – LET’S GO – REWARD TIME

2. COPY CAT

3. CREATE A MOVE

4. DOMINO

5. EXPRESS THE MUSIC

6. FOLLOW ME

7. FOLLOW THE PATH

8. GUESS THE PATTERN

9. IN IT TOGETHER

10. OVER AND UNDER

11. PLAY THE RHYTHMS

12. SPIRAL

13. SWITCH IT UP

14. TEACH A MUSIC CONCEPT

15. WANT TO BE MY FRIEND?

16. WE NEED YOU

MOVEMENT ACTIVITY POSTERS: (65 Posters!)

HOLD WITH TWO HANDS
CIRCLE
SPIRAL
LINE
WIDE CIRCLE
STAND IN A CIRCLE
BOUNCE LITTLE
BOUNCE BIG
ZIG ZAG
SMALL WAVES
BIG WAVES
WAVE
WIGGLE
FOLLOW ME
FOLLOW THE LEADER
HIGH SB
HIGH 1 KID
HIGH CONNECT-A-BAND
LOW CAB
LOW CAB (KIDS)
LOW
BOUNCE HIGH
BOUNCE LOW
BOUNCE SLOW
BOUNCE FAST
PULL
PUSH
PULL UP
IN AND OUT
OVER THE SHOULDER CAB
OVER THE SHOULDER SB
HOLD AT THE CHEST
HOLD WITH ONE HAND
HOLD BETWEEN LEGS
READY
SET
JUMP
JUMP OVER
UNDER
UNDER LOWER
DON’T TOUCH
UNDER
UNDER CAB
OVER
OVER AND UNDER
SWITCH
TWIST
TWIST SB
LIMBO
WALK IN A CIRCLE
DOWN
UP
LOW
IN
OUT
BIG WAVES
SHORT
LONG
CHOPPY
CONNECTED
BEAT
RHYTHM
TEMPO
DYNAMICS
EXPRESSION
HOW TO USE:

Get your students moving and learning with the upbeat songs and activities in this resource. You’ll find songs, teaching ideas and activity directions to easily implement Creative Movement activities into your lessons, activities and curriculum. These songs can be used for activities with Stretchy Bands, scarves, bean bags, parachutes and other movement props. The songs and activities are best for ages 4-10″ **This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. No physical items will be mailed to you.** After purchase you will receive an email receipt with a link to download your purchase. You will receive a text file with the download link. The text file will have a LINK to your resource. You will open the text file and copy paste the LINK in your browser which will start the download. If you have any problems with the download. Please email us and we will get you the resource.Questions? Email [email protected]