Scarecrow dancing

You will:

• perform simple movement combinations

• observe dance and engage in creative play

• draw basic images.

Watch the students in this dance.

Try and answer these questions:

• Name 3 shapes they make in this dance. 

• Draw these shapes on a piece of paper.

• What makes the dancers look like scarecrows?

• Who were the other characters in the dance?

Now it is your turn to be a scarecrow and create your own scarecrow dance.  

Let's start in one of your scarecrow shapes and then make your scarecrow come to life.  Perhaps you fall off your scarecrow post!   

Dance around your space like a scarecrow.  Try to include:

• moving in different directions

• slow and fast movements

• different levels

If you are dancing with your class, be sure to be careful and not run into any other scarecrows that are dancing with you!  

Try creating some movements with a scarecrow partner.  Can you mirror each other? 

Perhaps you could dance along to the If I Only Had a Brain music from the video.  

Have fun dancing like a scarecrow!