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Creative Movement

Instructions

These resources have been designed to support thematic and holistic learning, set within the context of creative movement, dance, creative games making and creative activities.

Themes

Build Towers

  • Strong, balance, support

Modelling Clay

  • Shape
  • Bend
  • Twist
  • Press
  • Stretch
  • Pull
  • Using small body parts – gestures or whole body actions
    • Squeeze
    • Roll
    • Poke
    • Prod
    • Push
  • Move from shape to shape
    • Working in pairs, one moulds and the other reacts
    • Shapes come to life -‘Morph’/Wallace and Grommit

Threading Beads

  • Thread, through, guide, knot

Magnetix

Ballons

  • Burst
    • Bang
    • Explode
    • Sad
    • Loud
    • Fall to floor
    • Shrivelled
  • Blow up
    • Different shape balloons
      • Small hand gestures to start, getting bigger and bigger into whole body actions
    • Different types of balloons
      • Round shapes
      • Long thin shapes
      • Curly/twisted shapes
  • Deflate
    • Whiz, fly, whee, buzz, dart, spiral
  • Play with
    • Flick
    • Float
    • Bounce
    • Nudge
    • Tap
    • Bat

Lego

Media

  • Music

    Artist: Christopher Benstead
    Track 10: ‘The Big Wobbly’
    Track 15: ‘Move and Make a Shape’

    Album: Music for Dance
    The Early Years Vol. 2. 2010.
    www.musicfordance.net/

  • DVD/Books/Poems

    Books

    Inkpen, M., The Blue Balloon (2006)
    Hodder Children’s Books

    Morgan, R., Sglod a’r Ddraig/Sglod
    and the Sand Dragon (2000)

    Pomsford, M., Fel Fflam yn y Nos/
    Bessemer (1999)

    Gruffudd, E., Balŵn Bleddyn (2003)