Ages 5-7
Colorful Crayon Box - Tap Dance Lesson
Explore rhythm, musicality, and colorful creativity in this tap dance lesson for ages 5–7! Inspired by crayons and rainbows, dancers build rhythmic fluency and tap technique through imaginative, color-themed movement activities.
A Conceptualized-Thematic Dance EdVenture™
Tap Dance | Ages 5-7 | 45 Min | Time | Rhythm
Tap Lesson Plan: Colorful Crayon Box for ages 5-7
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.
- Two Colorful Warm-ups: This lesson plan has two separate exercises that serve as quick and fun warm-ups that guide young dancers through feeling the downbeat through technical explorations of movements such as heel drops, toe drops, crawls, and more. 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 Butterflies: Just like a red race car, students will explore traveling tap steps with a focus on modulating speed and tempo, While moving their feet and legs in the shape of butterfly wings, the orange butterfly movements improve weight shifts, develop sidedness, identify right and left, and strengthen coordination.
- Yellow Lemonade and Green Crocodiles: Like a cools sip of ice cold lemonade, this paradiddle prep combo will have the dancers will sharpening their sounds as they breakdown the mechanics of a paradiddle. While do the crocodile rock, the dancers will develop shuffle control, as they move from one rhythmic feel to the next. This segment of the lesson will enhance their understanding of how to execute steps with clear sounds while being playful, making lasting connections.
- Blue Song, Crayon Box, and Purple Bricks The final part of the lesson will take the young dancers through the crayon box, taking their shuffle control to the next level. They will build strength in their shuffle hops and practice rhythmic control with shuffle ballchanges. The 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
- 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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Color Shake-Up Warm-Up
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Slow _ Fast Red Race Cars
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Orange Butterfly Caboodles
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Yellow Lemonade Paradiddle Prep
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Rainbow Warm-Up
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Green Crocodile Shuffles
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I-m Blue Shuffle Hop Steps
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Box of Crayons Shuffle Ballchange
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Purple Bricks Obstacle Course
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Suggested Lesson Plan Calendar
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Printable Teacher Guide - Colorful Crayon Box for ages 5-7
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Purple Bricks Printables
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Playlist Link & Prop List
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About this course
- $50.00
- 0.5 hours of video content
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