Preschool scarf activities

I’m sharing 8 scarf and ribbon activities you can use in the elementary music classroom today to teach music concepts.

Here's a list of movement scarf activities for preschool and kindergarten music classes. Some of the activities can be used with toddlers as well. These can easily be added to your lesson, especially if kids are already going to have the scarves on hand for something else you've planned.

Scarf play is an excellent opportunity for preschool children to learn many developmental skills while swishing, floating, waving and tossing scarves. What looks like just fun and games is actually enhancing your child’s development in multiple areas.

Scarf play is a wonderful sensory activity that can benefit babies, toddlers, and children of all ages. At every age of a child’s development, there are scarf activities that can help with that child’s advancement to the next developmental milestone. To understand why and how scarf plays are so beneficial, it’s important for parents and caregivers to understand two chief axioms of child development. First, as infants, children begin to learn about the world around them through their senses.

Read this blog post to learn this Fun winter scarf movement activity for children. "The Snow is on My Head" Movement Song with a scarf. Help your students learn head, shoulders knees toes (body parts) as they sing this fast paced song. I like to use this as a warm up activity before doing a longer scarf movement. This is an easy tutorial for a winter scarf dance you can use with toddlers up to 2nd graders. LEARN MORE

Invite preschoolers to stay warm this winter season by making their own winter scarf.

Learn how to use "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" as a music lesson and calm down scarf movement activity in this blog post.

10 Scarf Movement Activities for preschool and kindergarten music time. Read the post by Sing Play Create with the 10 scarf activities.

Bright colored play scarves learn a variety of skills like learning colors. Here are 5 activites to increase color recognition for toddlers!