Music and movement activities enhance children's learning. A musical freeze tag game helps with children's listening skills and self-regulation (starting and stopping).
What to do:
- Play some music.
- Tell the children they may move or dance anyway they want to the music. But once you stop the music, they must "freeze" in that position until the music starts playing again.
- Use both short and longer periods of time between when you stop the music. When you give the children more time to move to the music, they will lose their inhibitions and be more creative in their movement.
- Use a different type of music each time you play this game, such as rock and roll, classical, a march, Latin rhythms, a waltz, etc. Mix it up between fast and slow music to teach the children about different types of music.
Activities 12-3 partial
