Scarf Activity

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A scarf activity is a great activity for a story time class. It acts as an extension of the story and can really help with inciting some movement as well. Our students always react with such excitement at the sight of the scarves. We're sure it's the same with yours.

Given the fact that we are still working through our "Ocean" themed ideas, we created this fun and simple song\rhyme, with jellyfish in mind, which works really well with scarves. It illustrates the movement of the jellyfish using simple terms and with simple yet challenging scarf movements.

So how did it go?

Scarf activities are always easily convincing. Children see them and react. Therefore, it was obvious that we had great success with this activity. Our students particularly

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