Dance Move

  • Any Size

  • Ages 3-5

  • None

Development Goal

To share and learn about one another, and develop social comfort

Before You Start

  • All participants and adults should be standing in a circle.
  • Explain ground rules: no touching anyone or anything, no falling down, keep it appropriate (consequences as appropriate by grade, jumping jacks, a time out, etc.).

How to Play

  • With one participant in the center of the circle, doing whatever dance they want, (within the previously stated safety rules), everyone claps and chants this song:
    • Let me see your dance move
    • Your dance move,
    • Your dance move.
    • Let me see your dance move,
    • Your dance move at this school.
  • Immediately afterwards, everyone joins in and does the same dance that the student in the middle did while chanting:
    • We can do it too,
    • And too,
    • And too.
    • We can do it too,
    • We can do your dance move!
  • The group chants both parts, and the student in the middle closes his/her eyes and spins around. The group counts to ten and on the count of ten, the student in the middle freezes. Whoever s/he is pointing to is the next person in the middle.
  • If the person chosen randomly does not want to go in the middle, they have the right to pass. The adult points to the next person in the circle until there is a volunteer.