As the warmer months are approaching, here are some activities you can do with your students while enjoying the outdoors!
Skipping songs are a great outdoor activity to add to your lessons. You can find a collection of these in Units > Dance & Move > Skipping Songs or by clicking the link here: Skipping Songs on MPO
Related Songs:
- Bubble Gum (K)
- Miss Lucy (1)
- Bluebells (2)
- Apples, Peaches, Pears, and Plums (2)
- Miss Marcy Mac (4)
The list of songs feature a variety of resources, including lyric and notation videos, demos, as well as notation and lyrics projectables.
Bluebells
For more outdoor games, check out our chase games!
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Click on the Song List tab and then Add Filter.
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Click on Song Type.
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Select Chase Game.
Here is a list of chasing games to get you started:
- Lucy Locket
- Mouse Mousie
- Charlie Over the Ocean
- Tisket a Tasket
- Let Us Chase the Squirrel
- Cut the Cake
- Ickle Ockle
- Our Old Sow
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- Hill Hill Come Over the Hill
- Kye Kye Koolay
- Turkey Lurkey
- King’s Land
- Frog in the Middle
- I Like Turkey
- Built My Lady
- John the Rabbit
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Cut the Cake
Game Directions:
- Students form a circle.
- Measures 1-2: Clap hands.
- Measures 3-4: Shake hands.
- Measures 5-8: Students join hands in the circle.
- One student walks around the outside of the circle during singing.
- At the end of the song, they "slice" the cake by separating two students holding hands.
- The student who separated the pair stands with arms outstretched.
- The separated students race in opposite directions around the circle.
- The first student to tag an outstretched hand wins.
Cut the Cake Notation Projectable
Below are additional outdoor activities:
- Dancing: Play music through your phone and amplify with Bluetooth. Incorporate scarves or paper plates for movement.
- Rhythm activities: Clapping, patting, stomping, and "Follow the Leader" with 4 or 8 beat rhythms.
- Ball activities: Use a ball for bouncing and passing on the beat.
- Circle games: "Frog in the Middle" and other circle games are always fun.
- Sidewalk chalk: Illustrate songs like "Aikendrum".
- Campfire or camp songs: Sing campfire or camp songs with movement.
- Storytime: Read a story that corresponds with a song.
- 4 Corners game
- Sound scavenger hunt: Take a walk and listen for various sounds.
- Parachute activities
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