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Monster Freeze Dance
Here's one to try together!
Stomp, flap and shuffle like a monster, then freeze solid the second the music stops!
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Safety first
- collisions or falls while dancing; clear open space of obstacles
What you need
- Phone, 1 phone or music player with spooky-silly songs
How to do it
Grown-up prep: Clear an open space and move furniture, toys and anything trippy out of the way. Queue up some spooky-silly music on a phone or speaker you can pause easily.
- Check the dance floor together for anything to bump into or trip over.
- The first monster is a zombie! Show everyone a slow, stiff-armed walk.
- Start the music and dance like a zombie all around the room.
- Pause the music without warning. Everyone freezes like a statue! Ask: Can you stay totally still, even your nose?
- Call out a new monster, like a flapping bat, and start the music again.
- Keep playing rounds with new monsters: mummy, werewolf, ghost and swamp monster. Ask: What new monster should we invent for the next round?
- Finish with a slow, sleepy monster dance to calm your bodies down.
- Now invite friends to join, or invent your own monster! What will it be? Ask: What would your very own monster dance look like?
Play it again
- Statue shapes: freeze in the shape of the monster you were dancing.
- DJ monster: take turns being the DJ who picks monsters and controls the music.
- One foot freeze: when the music stops, freeze while standing on one foot.
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