08/31/2022
5 Movement Songs For Kids!
1- Move It, Move It!: One of our favorite active movement songs. Get your wiggles out at home or in the classroom!
2- Walk, Walk, Walk is a great transitional movement song. In other words, it’s great to use immediately following a more active movement song to help kids transition to a less active activity.
3- Grizzly Bear Grump is a sensory-based movement song by Stephanie Leavell that helps kids explore feelings of anger and frustration, and then it gives them specific sensory tools to help them self-regulate. The goal? Kids practice these strong feelings + sensory tools when they're feeling GOOD, and then they have concrete things to try when they're feeling BAD. Simple, but sooo incredibly powerful.
4- Just Dance is an active movement song that engages kids in choosing the next movements, with an added element of surprise and fun when we all "freeze!" during the song.
5- Move To The Beat is a movement song-- but not just any movement song-- it's designed for sitting. It's also has a verse in there that has the magical power to quiet down a group of 25 preschoolers ALL AT ONCE. Complete silence--I kid you not! I discovered it by accident one day and now I use this trick all the time and it works over and over again. (Hint: It's the eyebrow verse.)
Find these 5 movement songs for kids on Spotify-- https://open.spotify.com/artist/0t9vTFNjGsjQMtfrJqgZ13?si=3LAdHkIWS-GGedEutB9V-w
