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November 27, 2013

Kids Art Activity: Freeze Dance Painting

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Big art activities are always a hit with kids, it’s fun to create on a large scale.  This week we took it to a whole new level with freeze dance painting!

Freeze Dance Painting! A fun gross motor activity for exploring music.

If you haven’t played before freeze dance before it’s a fun stop and go dance game. When the music plays you dance and when the music stops you freeze in place.

Big Art Activity for Kids-Freeze Dance Painting!

For freeze dance painting I poured paint into a frisbee for my little one to step in.  Once her feet were covered in paint she jumped on the paper and danced to the music.

Freeze Dance Painting!  This is such a fun way to get moving while exploring art and music!

She had fun dancing and freezing while she painted with her feet!  I played music with different tempos and we looked at the different prints she made dancing to each.

The big kids couldn’t wait to join in and paint too–we now have lots of big art we can wrap our Christmas gifts in this year!

The other Move and Learn co-hosts were busy putting together Move and Learn Activities for kids this week too, make sure to check them out!

Other Ways to Move & Learn this week:

  • Skating on Letters from Toddler Approved
  • Chore List with Dominoes and Numbers from Hands On: As We Grow
  • Thankful Nature Walk from The Pleasantest Thing
  • Check out all our Move & Learn activities
  • Lots of ideas on our Pinterest board!

About Megan Sheakoski

Megan is the creator of Coffee Cups and Crayons, a blog full of simple fun and learning. She believes that kids’ activities don’t have to be complicated to be fun and that learning is better with play.

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Comments

  1. How Wee Learn says

    November 27, 2013 at 1:05 pm

    This looks like so much fun! We would be doing a different kind of “freeze” dancing outside today (haha … so snowy …) Shared!

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      November 29, 2013 at 11:53 am

      Ha! My kids would be so jealous of your snow! Thank you!

      Reply
    • Coffee Cups and Crayons says

      December 1, 2013 at 11:29 am

      Thanks you so much How Wee Learn!!!! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Laughing Kids Learn says

    December 4, 2013 at 9:31 pm

    What a wonderful idea. I can just image that oozy feeling of paint between the toes. What fun!

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      December 4, 2013 at 11:36 pm

      Yes! So much fun! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Catherine Stephenson says

    June 27, 2015 at 5:02 pm

    I love this idea! We did a freeze dance in our last recital for our very little girls. They loved it and this is a great summer activity they could do to relive it. Thank you!

    Reply

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