Dance Play

There should be a series of postcards attached to your pack detailing a few ideas with each of the resources to get you started! You can use the resources with your little one however you both see fit, it’s always nice to see how they are engaging with it first and go from there! Any amount of time between you and your your little one moving and playing with these resources together is amazing, whether it’s a quick couple of minutes or a longer period of time. These resources are designed for both you and your little one doing them together.

We’ve created downloadable resources (PDF’s) with exercise ideas on them as well as some nursery rhymes in both Welsh and English. To accompany this there are a whole host of playlist suggestions as well as videos, bringing to life some of the exercises. Below you’ll find a video, pdf download and an accompanying sound track for each resource in your pack..

Dance play is curious and explorative, it requires all our senses to be engaged and embodied. The physical nature allows little ones an energy release and a failure free environment to gain physical confidence. Encouraging them to be creative, free and happy about moving is the goal! Remember activities can be energising to burn off some much needed energy, or they can be used in a way to calm and bring little ones back to themselves. Language is a big focus in a lot of these exercises, understanding directions, body parts and effort qualities. For example, if we’re all moving around like lions, they are understanding the word and embodying the animal, grasping the concept that Lions are big, and they crawl and pounce…..and make a loud ROAR sound!

Dance play isn’t prop/ resource dependant there are so many ways in which you can just use your body to explore movement, we’ve chosen to highlight exercises with the props in your pack on this platform so that you feel supported using them at home!