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These video resources contain short activity ideas to use with your children. They are designed to provide a variety of ideas you can try out, and vary from warm-up activities and concentration games to maths and storytelling.

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Solids, liquids and gases

Chatter leads an activity using music and movement to explore the differences between solids, liquids, and gases. Children will explore qualities of movement related to these states of matter and change between them. There will also be a short song to learn which contains all of the key information.

Key stage KS2

Topic Movement, Performing Arts, Music, Science

Solids, liquids and gases

Key stage KS2

Topic Movement, Performing Arts, Music, Science

Moving with your breath

Artis specialist Wizzle takes us though a calming meditation and leads the children to create their own movement piece based on breathe.

Key stage All

Topic Healthy Body, Wellbeing, Warm up, Movement, Dance

Chant: sense of rhythm and pulse internalisation

First you make your fingers click is a cleverly written chant in which there is a click, a slap, a stamp and a clap, each on a different beat of the bar. It gets children thinking about rhythm and is really useful to improve their musicality. This activity can be extended by taking the words out and doing just the actions to develop pulse internalisation and children's overall musicianship.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Warm up, Rhythm, Concentration, Confidence, Music

Clap and click: concentration and focus

Using a hand drum, teacher plays a rhythm and children clap it back. Then the skin and rim of the drum can be used and the children are asked to clap when they hear the skin and click when they hear the rim. To make the activity more challenging these can be switched round so the skin is a click and the rim a clap.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Warm up, Rhythm, Concentration, Music

Fish game: concentration and focus

In The Fish game the teacher will use one hand to represent the sea and the other to represent the fish; every time the fish jumps out of the sea children have to clap together. This activity can be used to re-focus children to get ready for work, they'll have to watch closely and concentrate to be able to clap exactly at the same time.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Communication, Warm up, Concentration

Living postcards: expressing own ideas

Living postcards develops the traditional freeze frame idea by bringing it up to date with the touch screen technology. Still images created by the children come to life when any of the characters is gently touched: they then perform a simple gesture or say a line.

Key stage KS2

Topic Communication, Drama, Confidence, Performing Arts

Replace the word: pulse internalisation & literacy

In this activity children learn the poem 'Remember, remember the fifth of November', concentrating on understanding the poem's rhythm and pulse. By later replacing some words with actions, children internalise the pulse and the words are consolidated further.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Literature, Poetry, Concentration, Music

The hello song: vocal and movement introduction

The hello song: an ideal introduction song perfect for EYFS and KS1. This fun warm up activity can be modified for any class, and is ideal for beginning a lesson. Children are required to repeat the words from this song as a good vocal introduction, using character, voice and movement. In this video Artis Specialist Helena Smith (Giggle) introduces the activity and explains this simple activity for you to try.

Key stage KS1, EYFS

Topic Drama, Warm up, Concentration, Teamwork, Music

Building a shed

This exciting and fun game is suitable for any age group and works on composition, rhythm and building improvisation skills. Children need to work together and listen carefully to make the activity work.

Key stage All

Topic Rhythm, Concentration, Teamwork, Music

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