Winter: Music, Literacy, and More! Shivering Snowman! Get moving with these winter-themed activities! Even if you don’t receive an inch of snow or temperatures below freezing, you can always dream up what winter feels like. Today in the Bear Paw Creek blog, we are focusing […]
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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.
[THEMES] Christmas: Music, literacy, and more!
Christmas Music to Get You Moving and Grooving! It’s December, and most likely your focus has been on incorporating holiday music into your lessons and sessions. It’s a festive time of year, and in my opinion, adding holiday music to your music lineup brings a […]
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 […]
Bean Bags and Music with Mar Music Games Activities
Bean Bags and Music with Mar Guest post by Maryann Harman of Music with Mar Bean bags are one of the many things in early childhood that are thought of as ‘toys’ and yet they are so much more than that. It’s almost as if […]
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 […]
Promoting Social Interactions through Sensorimotor Play
Promoting Social Interactions through Sensorimotor Play I work with a lot of young children and children on the autism spectrum. Often this means that cooperative play and typical social interactions are challenging. Activities where we need to play as a group or hold hands are […]
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 […]
