Janet Stephens
Our Blog on Creative Music and Movement Products
Since 2000, Bear Paw Creek has been designing and manufacturing creative movement props, bags and totes for instruments. We hope our blog will inspire teachers, therapists, and parents as they seek to enrich the live of others through music and movement.
15 Stretchy Band Music and Movement Favorites from Bear Paw Creek Customers
15 Stretchy Band Music and Movement Favorites from Bear Paw Creek Customers Back in December I had fun in our Bear Paw Creek Facebook Group showing gratitude to our customer with a month long giveaway! In one of the giveaways I gave away our newest […]
5 Reasons to Play Bean Bag Games and Giveaway
5 Reasons to Play Bean Bag Games and Giveaway All month long Sandra from Sing, Play, Create is posting movement activities for the following movement props: stretchy bands, parachutes, bean bags, and scarves/streamers. I also have some new bean bags I created for a custom […]
How To Use The Connect-a-Stretchy Band and Stretchy Band in Creative Movement Activities
How To Use The Connect-a-Stretchy Band and Stretchy Band in Creative Movement Activities I am so excited to have gotten connected with Sandra from Sing, Play, Create a year ago. I stumbled across her site from her blog post on the stretchy band. She puts […]
New Products Include Make Your Own Streamers and Guitar Case
New Creative Movement Products Include Make Your Own Streamers and Guitar Case I have been busy with trying to knock some to do items off my list, but it keeps growing! I am sure you can relate to that. One of my lists is new […]
Ellen Allard Music Meets the Stretchy Band
Ellen Allard Music Meets the Stretchy Band A few weeks ago I shared a blog post entitled “Better Together” which features a song written by Megan from Healing Sounds. I keep thinking about this song and it just may become Bear Paw Creek’s theme song. […]
Bear Paw Creek Stretchy Band in the Singapore News
Bear Paw Creek Stretchy Band in the Singapore News Back in May of 2017, our Singapore distributor Our Music Classroom sent me an email showcasing the stretchy band being used in a new preschool. Ms Thian Ai Ling, deputy general manager of MFS, said: “As […]
Creative Kids Yoga Dots for Music and Movement
Creative Kids Yoga Dots for Music and Movement Last spring Rosemary from Creative Kids Yoga ordered some streamers for one of her workshops. We had a lovely conversation via email and she ended up sending me some Yoga Dots. After I signed up to be […]
Songs at My Speed by Margie La Bella
Songs at My Speed by Margie La Bella Margie La Bella from Music Therapy Tunes explains where the vision for her newest cd, “Songs At My Speed,” came from. It is available as a physical cd and also digital cd. She is also adding a […]
Back to School Sale and Giveaway 2017
Back to School Sale and Giveaway 2017 It’s time for our annual back to school sale for the entire month of August! August 1 -7 20% off – Code: 2042017 August 8-15 15% off – Code: 1542017 August 16-31 10% off – Code: 1042017 Make […]
Boomwhacker® Music Education Tool and Boom Tote Storage
Boomwhacker® and Boom Tote Giveaway Do you use Boomwhackers®? In this post I will share a little bit of history and my current favorite video of them in use. Creator of the Boom Tote, Michelle Erfurt, is partnering with us for this giveaway! History of […]