Large Motor Skills and the Stretchy Band These latex bands covered in bright, rainbow colored cloth are awesome for gross motor activities and can facilitate so many child development skills including proprioception, strength, motor planning, balance, and midline crossing. Here are two large motor skills […]
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Pumpkin Musical Movement Songs and Learning Games Activities Fall is one of my favorite times of year and all the pumpkin love has gotten the creative juices flowing around here. While I was working on this blog post, and had a pile of 75 balloon
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Joanne Lara of Autism Movement Therapy reviews Bear Paw Creek products A few months ago I heard about Autism Movement Therapy and sent Joanne Lara our new connect-a-band and some streamers. I have been thrilled with her excitement and encouragement of our products. Her story
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How Do I Wash My Bear Paw Creek Stretchy Band? We all know that we need to keep our movement props clean for our group activities. Have you wondered how to wash your Bear Paw Creek movement props? Here is how to wash your stretchy
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13 Stretchy Band Group Movement Activities 13 Stretchy Band Music and Movement Activities Here is our first infographic with music and movement activities to use with the stretchy band or connect-a-band. Thanks to those that contributed! If you have an activity suggestion, please let me
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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