Ages 5-7
Colorful Crayon Box - Tap Dance Lesson
Color your world with rhythm in this imaginative tap dance lesson for ages 3–5! Young dancers explore beginner tap skills, coordination, musicality, and creative movement through playful crayon-themed activities inspired by colors, rainbows, and artistic exploration.
A Conceptualized-Thematic Dance EdVenture™
Tap Dance | Ages 3-5 | 45 Min | Time | Rhythm
Tap Lesson Plan: Colorful Crayon Box for ages 3-5
The Colorful Crayon Box Tap Lesson Plan from Dance Dance Hooray is a Conceptualized-Thematic Lesson Plan. The Lesson Plan serves as a foundational exploration of tap technique through the lens of colors and imagination. In this engaging lesson, young dancers will imagine that they are dancing through the crayon box through imagery and tap movements, fostering a deeper understanding of the skills, rhythm, and musicality that are the foundation of tap dance.
- What's Your Favorite Color: Young dancers will begin by chanting the colors of the rainbow while feeling the downbeat through technical explorations of movements such as heel drops, toe drops, and marches. These exercises emphasize the importance of keeping time and having body control as they lay the groundwork for their tap journey.
- Red Race Cars & Orange Oranges: Just like a red race car, students will explore traveling tap steps with a focus on go and stop, With an orange cone by their feet, dancers will test their balance and accuracy as they execute point togethers and heel togethers near the cone and tapping the top of the cone. These movements improve weight shifts, develop awareness of the different sounds they can make, and strengthens coordination.
- Yellow Sun and Green Frogs: Like a happy yellow sun, the dancers will work on quick recall & memorization as they dance along with the words and target using the tips of their taps (toe back). They'll imagine their feet are little jumping frogs splashing in the water, as they practice clean shuffles with their toe taps. This segment of the lesson will enhance their understanding of how to execute steps with clear sounds while being playful, making lasting connections.
- Blue Water and Purple Bricks The final part of the lesson will take the young dancers to the end of the rainbow, where they will learn how to take a rhythmic pattern and cut in half, while working on cross-body movement as well. This obstacle course focuses on traveling steps in different pathways, with an opportunity to make a collaborative creation of purple bricks with the class.
This Lesson Plan Includes:
- Printable Teacher's Guide
- Suggested Lesson Plan Calendar
- Red Race Car Stop & Go Signs (Visual Aid)
- Link to Spotify Playlists
- Prop List
- Video Demonstrations of each Exercise
- Purple Bricks Obstacle Course Printables
- Coloring Page
What's included in our Dance EdVentures™
Printable Teacher's Guides
Our Tap Dance EdVentures™ include Printable Teacher's Guides and Lesson Plan Summaries.
Apple and Spotify Playlists
Our Tap Dance EdVentures™ include Apple, Spotify Playlists and links to Amazon Music.
Shoppable Prop Guide
We provide a Guide with all the props shown in each lesson plan with shoppable links to purchase.
Video Demonstration of each Exercise
Each Tap Dance EdVenture™ includes Video Demonstrations. They include an explanation of the exercise as well as a demonstration with music.
Dance Games and Activities
Our Tap Dance EdVentures™ include printable games and activities like movement cards, mystery dance and more!
Dance to Learn® at Home
Some of our Dance EdVentures™ will include activities that will allow the learning to continue at home such as coloring pages, sticker trackers and more!
Course curriculum
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Lesson Plan Terms of Use
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Assumption of Risk and Waiver of Liability
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Call Out The Colors Warm-Up
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Red Race Cars Locomotor Steps
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What Rhymes With Orange
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Yellow Sun Tips _ Toe Backs
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Shuffle Frogs
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Big Blue Box Warm-Up
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Rainbow Shapes Rocking Feet
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Blue Water Patterns
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Suggested Lesson Plan Calendar
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Printable Teacher Guide
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Stop & Go Printables
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Purple Bricks Printables
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About this course
- $50.00
- 0.5 hours of video content
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