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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.

 

Top Music Activities Circle Time Muti-Generational Stretchy Band Tuneful Teaching Music Therapist

Stretchy Band Video with Group Movement Activity

Stretchy Band Video with Group Movement Activity Just released: our newest addition to our music and movement group activity videos featuring the stretchy band! In this video Kathy Schumacher MT-BC leads a group of kids ages 9-13 in learning 4/4 time, large motor exercises, group […]

Grow Flower Grow Connect a Stretchy Band Song

Connect-a-Stretchy Band Movement Song by Listen Learn Music

Connect-a-Stretchy Band Movement Song by Listen Learn Music Last week Rachel Rambach released her new song “Grow, Flower, Grow” just in time for spring. It’s gloomy here today, so I hope this new video, and movement song will brighten your day, and bring inspiration and […]

Best Peg Board Storage Clear Zippered Bag with Handle Early Childhood Librarians

Zippered Peg Board Puzzle Storage Bag

Zippered Peg Board Puzzle Storage Bag This peg board puzzle storage bag was originally designed to hold one puzzle, but it also holds two. If you look closely, you can see that one puzzle piece has gone missing. I’m excited to find a solution to […]

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Music & Movement: Why We Dance in Circles

Music & Movement: Why We Dance in Circles In this blog post I share some observations about connecting through circles, and I reveal how my brain had a total DISconnect! Last week Kindermusik released a blog post entitled: Music & Movement: Why We Dance in […]

Cristal Garcia Drawstring Bag Organization Music Together Activity Director Music Educators

Cristal Classroom Organization with Drawstring Bags

Cristal Director of Peninsula Music Together Classroom Organization with Drawstring Bags From Cristal: “Janet from Bear Paw Creek just made this special Drawstring Bag order for me. Now all my props are organized by color, in these nice pack cloth (durable backpack material). I love […]

Colorful Rainbow Wrist Scrunchie Jingle Bells on Ribbons Music Together Early Childhood Teachers

Jingle Bells Wrist Scrunchie Movement Prop

Jingle Bells Wrist Scrunchie Movement Prop I had so much fun creating these jingle bells wrist scrunchies last Christmas.  Just the feel and sound of them set the stage for creative movement. Jingles on the Stretchy Band After the creation of them, I discovered another […]

Music and Brain Action Songs Lessons Music Therapy Tunes

Music Memories and Mewsic Moves Glee Choir

Music Memories and Mewsic Moves Glee Choir How did I get going on memory lane?  All because of John Mews of Mewsic Moves fabulous documentary of the glee choir he leads. Take a watch, be inspired, and find your voice! A Trip Down My Musical […]

Top Sensory Integration Activities Chiffon Nursing Home Fabric Wrist Scrunchie Rainbow Chiffon Streamers Let's Play Music

Music Therapy Props Wrist Streamers Review by Linda Jedrzejek, MT-BC, NMT

Music Therapy Props Wrist Streamers Review by Linda Jedrzejek, MT-BC, NMT I was so excited when Linda emailed me to say she was writing a blog post about our movement prop, rainbow wrist streamers. The blog post surpassed my expectations, and the video?  Bonus, bonus, […]

A Moving Child is a Learning Child Music Movement Let's Play Music

A Moving Child is a Learning Child Review

A Moving Child is a Learning Child Review Right before Christmas I stumbled across this video about a book written by Gill Connell and Cheryl McCarthy called “A Moving Child is a Learning Child.”  I wanted to be sure to share this video and resource […]

Unique Action Songs Lessons Dynamic Movement Connect-a-Stretchy Band Miss Carole MacSoup Librarians

Stretchy Band Movement and Song Activity

Stretchy Band Movement and Song Activity I’m always looking for new movement and song ideas to go with our stretchy band and connect-a-stretchy band.  This song came to mind, and after a little fine tuning from my big sister, here it is! If You’re Happy […]

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NEW BLOG POST: The Nutcracker March Stretchy Band Activity

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