Rainstorm Body Band
What you need
- four scarves, two each
How to do it
- Sit facing each other and start the storm quietly: rub your hands together for drizzle, and let your child copy.
- Make it rain harder: tap fingers on palms, then pat your knees, then stamp your feet for thunder.
- Stand up for the wind: wave a scarf in each hand in big slow sweeps over your heads.
- Then bring it back down the same way, stamp, pat, tap, rub, until the storm is over and everything is quiet.
Why it matters
A storm that builds from drizzle to thunder and back has a pattern to it, and every sound in it comes from their own hands and feet.
What they're learning
- Loud and quiet
- From a soft rub to stamping thunder and back.
- Remembering a pattern
- Rub, tap, pat, stamp, then the same way back.
- Swooshing the wind
- Scarves waving wide over their heads.
What to look for
Notice them starting the next sound before you do.
A tip
Try it when it's raining, and listen to the real rain at the window first.
Make it easier or harder
Easier: use two sounds, rub and stamp, for quiet and loud
Harder: let them lead the storm and change the order for you to follow
