All-Time Favourite Music and Movement Games!

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“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.”

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Decide on 4 familiar songs and create a way to represent each one on a piece of paper by a picture or a word or download and print them HERE (Ex. Row, row, row your boat; Old Macdonald; Twinkle, twinkle; Abc's).
Display the pictures in the four different corners of a room.
Choose one person to be in the middle. They will close their eyes and count down from five while the rest of the players finds a corner to stand in.
The person in the middle will sing one of the songs and whoever is in that corner is “out” and sits in the middle with the caller.
If there are four or less players, each player must choose their own corner (they can’t all stand in the same corner).
If the person in the middle sings one of the songs and no one is at the corner, everyone in the center is back in and a new person can be chosen to sing.
This game can be extended to use rhythms, instruments, treble clef note names, sight words, math facts and so much more!
- Instrument Four Corners is available HERE.
- Treble Clef Four Corners is available HERE.

Draw a number of pictures of stick men in different freeze positions. Some examples are available HERE.
Choose one person to control the music and the pictures
Dance around the room to the music, when the music is paused, all the dancers must freeze in the shape indicated on the picture.
This game can be extended to be played as an elimination game: the last person to make the shape is out.

Choose one side of the room to start on and move lengthwise through the space.
Decide who is going to go first (who's the boss!) and position you and your partner one behind the other.
The person at the front will dance/move however they like all the way to the other side of the room.
When both partners turn around to go back the other way, now the other partner is in front and can dance/move however they like back to the start.

This game is very similar to musical chairs, each player starts by standing on a spot (use coloured pieces of paper/foam/etc.)
While the music is playing they can dance around, not guarding or dancing around the spots
As soon as the music stops they must find a spot to stand on.
Ties are settled with “rock, paper, scissors”.
Remove one or two spots each round.
The final round with only one spot starts with the players running back and forth lengthwise in the room with the spot in the center.

Decide on the initial rules for the game. Some examples are: no talking, underhand tosses only (and no whipping the ball), no “passbacks”
If anyone breaks a rule, they sit down right where they were standing and they are out until the next round.
As the game goes on add different rules (ex. One second to catch and pass; Boys pass to girls, girls pass to boys; stand on one foot until you’re told to switch; one hand catches; catch with your opposite hand; “snags” (one hand catches where you can’t use your body to help you).
The last person standing is the winner.

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