Ribbon Movement Sticks

Ribbon Movement Sticks

Music is the movement of audio to accomplish the soul for the education of its virtue.
– Plato

Music and movement. You can't have ane without the other. They are ane and the same. Musicians motion to create the music they are creating. Have you ever watched a violinist on stage? Their whole body moves, every bit if they are adding their movement into their music. Wassily Kandinsky (Russian painter and art theorist, 1866-1944) saw music with colours and his paintings show the the audio of music made visible through the motility of paint across a sail.

Music is the ultimate teacher.
– Wassily Kandinsky

Music evokes movement from us. It draws out all sorts of emotions and can make our bodies want to move, even if we don't want them to! It could be through trip the light fantastic, through singing, painting, playing an instrument or even running. For many watching a ballet or opera can bring uncontrollable and overwhelming waves of emotion. The beauty of the dance married with the beauty of the music results in perfect harmony.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of existence human being and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
– Charles Baudelaire

Music has the ability to guide our moods. Some styles elevating and others leading to melancholy. It is no surprise then that if music and movement has such an effect on adults, that much scientific research has gone into the relationship and effects it can have in kid evolution.

Music and children accept a close relationship. As shortly as a babe is born, lullabies are softly sung to them. During those long days and nights of fourth trimester newborn life, these songs for many babies (and exhausted parents!) soothe and reassure them in the new globe they take emerged into. Ask any parent and you'll observe each can quickly proper name a song that had a calming effect on their babies. These songs tin can at-home a tired baby or child, stop hysteria in its tracks and even human action as a signal that it'south fourth dimension to go to sleep. Powerful stuff!

In that location is much enquiry that suggests the introduction the listening, playing and interaction with music at an early age improves brain development. Studies showed that if parents take their babies to interactive music classes they find that the rhythmic patterns within the music are like those in how nosotros speak. Our inclinations when we speak assistance babies to identify dissimilar speech sounds when they are learning how to speak. This carries on all the manner upwards to children learning to read, with teachers singing the ABC alphabet song and making upwardly ditties for children to retrieve letters when doing phonics learning. I tin't see an ant these days without hearing and seeing in my caput the song and actions my eldest learnt at schoolhouse for remembering A. "a, a, ants on my arm, a, a, ants on my arm."

Our children being actively in contact with music tin can lead to an improvement in lingual skills and from there to literary skills too. A kid that is learning different plant nursery rhymes within a grouping context, volition not simply be developing their memories in storing information but also learning new words. For example the plant nursery rhyme – Heads, shoulders, knees and toes. Within no fourth dimension at all, your kid will be naming parts of their bodies. From there we move on to literacy and so on to listening skills.

Ribbon Movement Sticks

Benefits of Interaction with Music

Cognitive Development:

  • Remembering whole songs
  • Learning new vocabulary
  • Improves listening skills
  • Learning nearly the cause and event of playing instruments
  • Advice skills
  • Encouraged blueprint recognition

Concrete Evolution:

  • Practising fine motor skills through the playing of instruments.
  • Gross motor skill development through spatial sensation when dancing, balancing coordination and rhythm.
  • Learning about the different means you can brand your body move.
  • Builds muscles when dancing to music.

Emotional Development:

  • The act of communal singing releases endorphins which can salve whatever stress or anxiety a kid may suffer from.
  • Information technology can change a kid'south mood from frustration to serenity.
  • Can teach a kid about emotional intelligence. They will start to empathise how a song can make y'all feel lamentable or happy. You may run into your child's dance moves begin to interrupt the music as they get older.
  • Encourages inventiveness and imagination.

We have put together an like shooting fish in a barrel DIY craft you can make your children to encourage them to experience music in a dissimilar sensory way. Inspired by Rhythmic Ribbon Gymnasts and their routines nosotros will exist creating our own Ribbon Movement Wands.

History Fact!

Gymnastics are thought to go every bit far back in time as the aboriginal Egyptians. Ancient Egyptian art show acrobats in human pyramids, in complicated balancing acts with partners, women performing bridges and fifty-fifty dancing with spherical ball like routines y'all would see in rhythmic gymnastics of today. According to Egyptologists, dance was an of import part of Egyptian life and tin can exist seen in ancient murals in pyramids, temples and tombs.

Rhythmic gymnastics can exist done not merely with ribbons but also with ropes, balls, hoops and clubs. So why not encourage your children to experiment dancing with a diversity of accessories!

Here is a link of a Ribbon Rhythmic Gymnastics competition that you might like to watch with your children.

DIY Ribbon Motion Sticks

Ribbon Movement Sticks - materials

What you will need:

  • A wooden dowel
  • ribbon, one or multiple colours
  • scissors
  • swivels
  • small-scale center hook
Ribbon Movement Sticks

Instructions:

  1. Just using your easily, identify one small eye hook into the middle of the top of your wooden dowel. Apply force per unit area and slowly turn it, screwing it into the woods.
  2. When secure, adhere your swivel to the center of your claw.
  3. Make up one's mind on how many ribbons and how long you would like those ribbons to be and cutting them. If you accept younger children, attempt non to make them too long as they could be tripping or choking hazards. The older they get and more used to the ribbons, your may try with longer ribbons.
    4. Ribbon Movement Sticks
  4. Tie those ribbons on to the stop part of your swivel.
  5. If you would similar, decorate your dowel however you wish. Otherwise, go out manifestly.
  6. Plough on your children'southward favourite music, paw over the Ribbon Motility Wand and have a 'Music and Movement' dance party!

If yous have a camera, why not accept some pictures of them twirling round. Bear witness them how their movements with the ribbons blur in a photograph because they are moving.

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Grace Selous Bull Contributor

Grace Selous Bull is an arts education author and freelance blogger. Her book,'Potty About Pots: arts and crafts for home and school' is aimed at children from 5-12 years old and takes them through a journey of ceramics through time. Her blog, The Rainbow Tree, explores all aspects of arts and crafts, and is aimed at children of all ages.  She is a full time Mummy of two girls, both of whom dearest beingness creative, and is married to her husband, Andrew, who does non. Follow her on twitter.

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