Bean Bag Boogie!

We have been doing the bean bag boogie in movement class for the past several weeks! The students have practiced balancing bean bags on different parts of their bodies, tossing and catching the bean bags themselves and with partners, throwing the bean bags for distance and accuracy, working with partners to try and carry bean bags while holding them with different body parts and even playing tag games with the bean bags.

These games and activities are helping the students to develop their fine and gross motor skills, hand/eye coordination, agility, balance and creative movement skills. The kids have really enjoyed tyring out different tricks with the bean bags and showing their classmates. Tricks have included throwing the bean bag in the air, clapping several times and then catching the bean bag, throwing the bean bag in the air spinning around and then catching the bean bag and even throwing the bean bag in the air and catching it with a different part of the body!