St. Patrick's Day Archives - Bear Paw Creek Movement props, bags and totes made in the USA. Thu, 14 May 2020 11:07:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://musicandmovementproducts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-Bear-Paw-Creek-Full-Color-Icon-Round-Crop-100x100.png St. Patrick's Day Archives - Bear Paw Creek 32 32 Shamrockin’ with Creative Movement Props for St. Patrick’s Day https://musicandmovementproducts.com/shamrockin-with-creative-movement-props-for-st-patricks-day-early-education-teachers-parents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shamrockin-with-creative-movement-props-for-st-patricks-day-early-education-teachers-parents https://musicandmovementproducts.com/shamrockin-with-creative-movement-props-for-st-patricks-day-early-education-teachers-parents/#comments Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:26:03 +0000 https://bearpawcreek.com/?p=48414 Shamrockin’ with Creative Movement Props for St. Patrick’s Day One of my favorite ways to incorporate music and movement into our days is by using holidays and the times of the year. St. Patrick’s Day is coming and I’m excited to share a song written […]

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Shamrockin’ with Creative Movement Props for St. Patrick’s Day

One of my favorite ways to incorporate music and movement into our days is by using holidays and the times of the year.

St. Patrick’s Day is coming and I’m excited to share a song written by Rachel Rambach Listen & Learn Music!  It’s title says it all, “Shamrockin’ Song.”  It’s sure to do that and get stuck in your head!  My kiddos LOVED it (and so does their mom.)

We’ll be giving the song and balloon ball away this week!

Now I’ll share some ways we’ve been having fun with it.

Shamrockin' Song and Shamrock Balloon Ball Giveaway Music Educators

Shamrockin’ with the Stretchy Band

Sometimes when I hear a song, I know it will be a great one with the stretchy band and any time I hear Irish music, it gets my feet tapping, and I want to start dancing like Riverdance!  You’ll see our feet attempt to do an Irish jig in this video.  With lyrics like this: hey, hey, move left and right, up and down, it’s great to use with the stretchy band. If we had a little more I think  it would be fun to put the kids on the connect-a-stretchy band straight and have them dance in a jig line!

 

Shamrockin’ Song meets creative movement prop stretchy band.
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Shamrockin’ Streamer Craft

Using scarves or streamers to move along with the Shamrockin’ Song would allow more individual interpretation of the song.

We had fun cutting out these shamrocks and adding some “gold” for tails. Glitter of course was a must!

Then we danced along with the song following the directions in the song.

Making Shamrock Streamers Creative Movement with Shamrockin' Song

Be sure to check out Rachel's song.

Shamrockin' Song Listen and Learn Music Rachel Rambach

 

Janet Stephens

Janet Stephens

Janet is the founder, designer, and one of the seamstresses behind Bear Paw Creek's made in the USA line of creative movement props, and bags. She is passionate about her faith, family, and loves the journey of learning and growing this life provides.

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]]> https://musicandmovementproducts.com/shamrockin-with-creative-movement-props-for-st-patricks-day-early-education-teachers-parents/feed/ 1 St. Patrick’s Day Music and Movement https://musicandmovementproducts.com/st-patricks-day-music-and-movement-fabric-covered-balloon-ball-early-childhood-teachers-parents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=st-patricks-day-music-and-movement-fabric-covered-balloon-ball-early-childhood-teachers-parents https://musicandmovementproducts.com/st-patricks-day-music-and-movement-fabric-covered-balloon-ball-early-childhood-teachers-parents/#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:58:48 +0000 https://bearpawcreek.com/?p=46695 St. Patrick’s Day Music and Movement Inspiration For the last month I have been on the hunt for St. Patrick’s Day fabric.  For awhile I thought I was hunting the elusive four leaf clover, or even worse that rascally leprechaun!  I prevailed and finally found […]

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St. Patrick’s Day Music and Movement Inspiration

For the last month I have been on the hunt for St. Patrick’s Day fabric.  For awhile I thought I was hunting the elusive four leaf clover, or even worse that rascally leprechaun!  I prevailed and finally found a fun print to turn into a balloon ball.  Building lessons and activities around a holiday is one of my favorite things to do with the kids.  So here’s some of what we are doing this year.

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Top Music Education Tools Movement Eldercare St. Patrick's Day Fabric Balloon Ball Cover Music Together Pre K Teachers

Music and Movement Fun

o many of Bear Paw Creek’s products are rainbow colored, so they fit right in with the rainbow and elusive pot of gold.  One of our favorites to use with the stretchy band or rainbow ribbon streamers is Miss Carole’s “Rainbow ‘Round Me.”  It’s particularly fun to be inside the stretchy band (rainbow) while listening to the verbal cues of raising your colored section up.

Here is a fun list of Celtic songs to get moving with. Use a balloon ball to play hot potato, dance, use movement props of scarves and streamers.

Linda from Rhythm Works Music Therapy shares her ideas and the fun song, “Macnamara’s Band” in this post

An Irish Proverb: May all your troubles be little ones and all your little ones be trouble free
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St. Patrick’s Day Art

I attempted to make finger paints for the kids, as it’s been awhile since we’ve finger painted, but either the recipe or the maker had issues! Have a recipe to share you like? Please do!

Instead, we used peppers and potatoes to make shamrock prints.

Potato and Pepper Shamrock Prints Music Movement Literacy Circle Time Home School Activity

Next week we will enjoy making rainbows and pots of gold.  Here is a link from Make and Takes that we will choose from.

Janet Stephens

Janet Stephens

Janet is the founder, designer, and one of the seamstresses behind Bear Paw Creek's made in the USA line of creative movement props, and bags. She is passionate about her faith, family, and loves the journey of learning and growing this life provides.

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