EXPRESSIVE ARTS

• participation in performances and presentations
  • give simple prompts while playing
  • dressing up box filled with capes/hats/fabrics (open-ended materials)
  • show and tell opportunities (outside the house?)
  • take them to performances
  • "perform" for their toys
  • model clapping and cheering rituals
  • *with p2* one child plays an instrument and the other dances/sings
  • do copycat movement games
  • Engage in role-play or "helicopter stories" where children dictate a story and act out the movements together on the carpet