6 Creative Movement Activities Using Streamers

These creative movement activities using streamers are the perfect way to get kids up and moving, while targeting all kinds of gross motor skills!

With a little imagination, your streamers can become the centerpiece for a million awesome movement activities for kids.

Here are 6 fun activities to try with your streamers and a little music to go with each!  A quick run-through of these activities for kids will target tons of developmental skills including: coordination, motor control, spatial awareness, and direction-following.

Pairing each activity with the suggested songs below will give kids cues about regulating the force and speed of their movements (e.g. the first song inspires slow and heavy movement like an elephant, the second song is quicker, like a galloping pony).

1 – ELEPHANT’S TRUNK – Show kids how to hold the streamers up to their noses to look like an elephant while stomping around the room to this song:

2 – PONY TAIL – Have kids hold their streamers behind them at their lower backs and gallop around the room pretending to be ponies!

3 – HELICOPTER- This time, show kids how to hold their streamers up high above their heads, swinging them around like a helicopter along with the song!

4 – POP GOES THE WEASEL – This is a great one for teaching impulse control and timing.  During the lead-in part of the song, have kids hold their streamers in a ball with both hands.  When the big moment comes (POP! Goes the weasel!), have them throw their streamers up into the air and then catch them.  Repeat!

5 – BUMBLEBEE – Have kids grasp streamers (one end in each hand) on either side of their bodies, like wings!  Tell them to hold their streamers like this, flapping their arms a little, and running around the room like bumblebees!  Try our Baby Bumblebee activity for even more fun!

6 – TAKE A NAP – Whew!  Those kids must be beat after all that moving and shaking!  Play the song below and have kids stretch out on the floor, laying their streamers over their bodies like a blanket!

For Virtual Sessions

If kids don’t have fabric streamers at home, all they need is a length of crepe paper or even toilet paper for these fun activities! Pull up the YouTube videos and demonstrate how to do the different movements with streamers along to the music!