Try a new game...Musical Hoola Hoops!

So at a training I recently attended it was said that Musical Chairs is NOT developmentally appropriate (DAP).  We were given a new idea to try and that is Musical Hoola Hoops. You put the number of hoola hoops down that matches the number of children playing. However, you do not take any hoops away as you do chairs in musical chairs and instead of sitting in a chair, you sit down or stand in a hoop. So...we started out walking as normal but i decided to have the children decide what to do. As they stopped and i changed the songs, i had a different child choose what to do each time. Such as, marching, hopping, skipping, etc. The children had a BLAST!!!

Not only was this activity DAP, it covered many skill areas.  Social skills, decision making, sharing, gross motor, listening, etc.